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COUNCILLORS have been left frustrated after it was confirmed that the plan for a new and bigger dental surgery in Basingstoke is now dropped.

THREE people have been arrested in Basingstoke on suspicion of conspiracy to blackmail.

THE first showhome on a new 750-home housing development in Basingstoke has opened.

A PETITION to save a green space in Basingstoke from development is gathering momentum as more than 2,000 people add their signatures.

There will be four months of misery for commuters to start 2022 with temporary traffic lights planned for a major route into Basingstoke.

A BOROUGH councillor has said residents are owed an explanation about why “not a brick has been laid” on the Manydown development.

Hounsome Fields will be built to the north west of the A30, opposite Basingstoke Golf Course. (Photo: Google Maps) New details have been released over the location of traveller pitches on one of the towns major new housing developments. Hounsome Fields, currently under construction on the north west side of the A30 near Beggarwood, will have two pitches for travellers as part of the boroughs provision. It will be accessed directly from Trenchards Lane, close to its junction with the A30, ...

A two-bedroom house planned for the Hounsome Fields project. Photo credit: Hounsome Fields - Linden Homes The first phase of a major development in Hounsome Fields in Trenchard Lane, Dummer will begin with construction of 143 residential units, a public notice advertisement has revealed. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has advertised for the construction of 143 residential units, which consists of a mix of semi-detached and terraced dwelling and flats. Along with the houses, the dev...

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article “New jobs & new homes, Lord pledges” (The Gazette, February 25). If Lord Lymington wants to leave a “true legacy”, why not turn his land into a country park rather than sell it for housing? Perhaps any return wouldn’t be as lucrative for him though, eh? Let’s see if Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council takes this land out of the draft revision of the Adopted Local Plan. Once land is in ALPs, proposals are to make the plan...

CONCERNS raised about a housing developer felling trees during bird nesting season have stopped the work going ahead. Bloor Homes was looking to chop the trees down at the entrance to the Golf Club in preparation to build 1,000 homes on the site, after being granted permission for the development by the borough council last year. The developer was in discussion with Hampshire County Council’s Highways department regarding removing the trees to create an access to the site and was hopin...