Business events in Lee-on-the-Solent

A seafront town with an airfield behind it

Lee-on-the-Solent sits on the Solent shore at the western end of Gosport borough. The ONS counted 24,315 people in the built-up area it names Lee-on-the-Solent at the 2021 Census. ONS built-up areas follow the edge of continuous built land rather than parish lines, so treat the figure as the size of the whole built-up patch round the town.

What sets the town apart for business is the airfield on its edge. Fareham Borough Council's history of Daedalus records that it was set up in 1917 as a naval seaplane training school, and that HMS Daedalus formally closed in 1996. In 2012 much of the site, including Daedalus East and Daedalus West, became the Solent Enterprise Zone. Fareham Borough Council bought Daedalus from the Homes and Communities Agency on 27 March 2015, and in 2016 the airfield was renamed Solent Airport at Daedalus, Daedalus East became Faraday Business Park and Daedalus West became Swordfish Business Park.

Who looks after what

This is one of the places where two councils meet. The town is Gosport's, while Daedalus was bought by Fareham Borough Council, which describes the Solent Enterprise Zone as being at the Daedalus airfield in Lee-on-the-Solent. Enterprise zones were set up by government to encourage business growth with financial incentives for businesses and councils. Fareham's history page puts it simply: Daedalus has been part of the communities of Fareham, Lee-on-the-Solent and Gosport for more than a century.

For a sense of scale, the ONS business register counted 1,860 enterprises across the whole of Gosport borough in 2026. That is a borough figure, not a count for Lee-on-the-Solent alone.

Getting here

Lee-on-the-Solent has no railway station, so check the venue's own arrival guide on its page before you set off.

The business events listed here have been at Fareham Innovation Centre, on Meteor Way at Daedalus. Neighbouring towns with pages here are Gosport and Fareham, and the rest of the coast is under Portsmouth and the south coast.