PAPER PREVIEW: Lord's plans to help housing crisis revealed
BASINGSTOKE will benefit from 2,500 new homes and 2,500 new jobs if plans for a new environmentally-conscious housing development are given the go-ahead. That is the message from the the figureheads behind Lord Lymington’s proposed project to build “genuinely affordable housing” on his 302hectre estate which lies to the south of Basingstoke and has been in his family for 600 years. The Upper Swallick garden village plans have been met with fierce opposition from residents in nearby Cliddesden who fear proposals will affect their views of the beautiful countryside and could impac...