THE results are in, but the winner won’t surprise you.

Following a bid to give a Southampton housing estate a name, locals have voted to call the area – which comprises nine roads and sits between Weston and Woolston – Waterside Park, which it was already unofficially known as anyway.

Local councillor Warwick Payne started the petition after council records and documents revealed that a name was never officially given to the area, near Weston Shore Promenade, like “a person being born without a birth certificate”.

A survey was sent out in a bid to find an answer, with a clear winner standing out.

Waterside Park received 72 per cent of the overall votes, with Rolling Mills in a not so close second with 10 per cent. This was followed by Redrow estate (seven per cent), Jurds Lake (five per cent).

Residents were also given the option to name the area as simply Woolston (a part of), or give their own naming suggestion – with one local suggesting Housey McHouseface, in recognition of a British research vessel named Boaty McBoatface as part of a public poll.

However, it was later renamed the RRS Sir David Attenborough.

Mr Payne said: “The response from residents was very clear.

“My next step will be to encourage the council to officially adopt the name and ask the Ordnance Survey to see if the name can be included alongside Woolston, Weston, Sholing, Itchen and Peartree Green, which are already marked on its maps.”

He added: “I’m also speaking to the council to see if something can be done to mark the history of the Rolling Mills which once stood in the neighbourhood, and finished second in the survey in terms of naming the estate.

“There is a long, straight footpath running beside the old walls of the facility, which is currently unnamed, so I’ll be asking if this could be called Rolling Mills Walk, in respect of the local history.”