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AN ABANDONED building in Basing View is set to be transformed into flexible office space. Grosvenor House, which has been left derelict since Hampshire Constabulary moved out in 2012, has been acquired by a firm that runs eleven other hot desking offices across the south of England. Arena Business Centres plans to turn the building into 56,000 square feet of "exceptional office space", covering eleven storeys. The councillor responsible for Basing View's regeneration, Cllr John Izett, labelled the acquisition as "brilliant news". As previously reported, one of the council's top prio...

TWO Basingstoke men found with kitchen knives in public have been fined. Richard James Evans, of Cleaver Road, South Ham, was found to be in possession of the blade in Basingstoke on May 1, 2020. Pleading guilty at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court earlier this week, the 39-year-old was fined £66, and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £34. In a separate incident, 19-year-old Joshua Melfi was found with a black handled kitchen knife on June 28, 2019. He was given a community order, where he must participate in 25 rehabilitation activity days. The court heard that because the defend...

DEVELOPERS in Basingstoke and Deane have turned vacant offices into flats on more than 600 occasions in the last five years, using powers to bypass normal planning rules. The Local Government Association warned communities may have lost out on "desperately needed" affordable housing through the use of permitted development rights, allowing certain conversions to be carried out without full planning permission. Data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government reveals there were 689 office-to-residential conversions in Basingstoke and Deane in the five years to 2019-20....