Bushfield Down News Today

Church Commissioner plans for Bushfield Camp have sparked concerns from Badger Farm Parish Council

Developers Legal & General and Gisborne, with landowners the Church Commissioners for England, have launched their consultation on plans for…

The site of a 64-bed Winchester care home has been earmarked for demolition as part of multi-million-pound plans to shift the aging building to a…

CONCERNS have been raised over news that part of a redundant army base on the edge of Winchester is set for major redevelopment as a business park.

BUSHFIELD Camp has lain unused for more than four decades. It is set to return to the spotlight as Winchester City Council draws up is new local plan. The military camp was earmarked for a ‘knowledge park’ but the economic situation makes that highly uncertain. Meanwhile, a campaign is growing for the adjacent Bushfield Down to be preserved. The question has arisen as to whether Bushfield Camp, the former Army base, can still be considered ‘brownfield’ land now that nature has b...

ITS future has been uncertain for nearly 50 years but campaigners are again working to preserve at least part of the site. Bushfield Camp and the adjacent Bushfield Down has been disused since the mid-1970s when the Ministry of Defence pulled out. Since then there have been several attempts to secure the long-term future of the downland area between the camp and Whiteshute Ridge. A bid for Millennium funding for a country park was unsuccessful as was a later attempt to have it declared a...

SIR: I was dismayed to see a photo of Bushfield Camp accompanying the letter from Jan Warwick (Chronicle, December 31).