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An office block in Basing View is up for sale for nearly £2 million, and it could be turned into flats.

BASINGSTOKE is the place to be, according to the leader of the council as three new firms sign a deal to move to the town’s business park.

PAPER PREVIEW: Basingstoke is the place to be Basingstoke is the place to be, according to the leader of the council as three new firms sign a deal to move to the town’s business park. The Gazette can reveal Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council is currently in talks with a number of London-based and international companies in a bid to woo them to the town. The council-owned Basing View, a 65-acre business park, is home to American pharmaceutical company Eli Lily as well as the AA and hou...

ONE motorist had a stroke of luck afternoon after their car broke down outside the AAs headquarters.

Commercial property giant CBRE found 58,650sqft of offices were taken up in the quarter. That made for the strongest first quarter on record and an increase of 100 per cent on the 10-year average for the first three months of each year. The findings were in contrast to the UK as a whole, where take-up fell 74 per cent compared with the same period in 2020 and 40 per cent on the five-year average for the quarter. The biggest local transaction saw the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP...

THE three Labour councillors elected to the South Ham ward have spoken out about the need for an increase in safety patrols and improved community facilities following a double stabbing incident which shook the community last month. On Monday, April 26, two people were stabbed on St Peter’s Road and emergency services flocked to the scene - with police cordoning off part of the street and searching a property known to be a bail hostel run by the charity Nacro. A man and a woman were tak...

Basingstoke council is pulling out all the stops in a bid to stop John Lewis from leaving town, The Gazette can reveal. The upmarket retailer announced its Basing View branch, which opened just six years ago, was among the eight stores earmarked for closure nationwide. In Basingstoke, this has left 93 people facing redundancy. The news came as a blow to the towns retail offering which has lost Debenhams, Topshop and Zara all in the past year.  But now a glimmer of hope remains for cust...

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council offices (Photo: Sean Dillow) A TOTAL of five Basingstoke and Dean Borough Council (BDBC) employees took home £100,000 or more last year, it has been revealed. The figures, published in the TaxPayers’ Alliance’s 14th Town Hall Rich List, analysed data from councils across the country. The council has defended the high salaries of the five employees, stating they are set at ‘an appropriate market level’ to attract the people with the right skil...

With shopping options limited during lockdown, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has introduced ‘The Borough Basket’ to help people buy gifts for mothers before Mother’s Day. An online marketplace for local independent businesses, more than 40 traders from across the borough have already signed up. Unique Mother’s Day gifts for the special ladies in your life include honey-based cosmetic pamper packages from Bee Good that come as a beautifully wrapped eco-gift with a box of wild...

The bus has been running every half an hour during the pandemic, having previously run every 15 minutes. Katie Cooper, from South View, is one reader who used the bus several times a week, to get from Basing View directly to the Aquadrome or Morrison’s, as she has disabilities and doesn’t drive. The 41-year-old said: “It makes things awkward. Now I can just cross the bridge and don’t have to change in the town centre. I wasn’t really travelling at peak times, but even if they ju...