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Sarah, Duchess of York speaks exclusively to HELLO! after learning of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council's plans to cut down oak trees in Dummer village, where she grew up.
Open letter to Cllr Ken Rhatigan Thank you for your email concerning the Planning Application for a warehouse on land at Oakdown Farm Dummer. In the email you state that ‘employment opportunities need to be right if the application is moved forward’. You also talk about ‘detailed information’. Have you had assurances regarding the employment numbers from the occupier? If not, who has provided these? What meetings have you had with the occupier during 2020? Were any or all of these meetings prior to the article published in the Gazette on April 5, when you recommended that th...
Plans for Basingstoke Gateway are due to be decided at a special development control meeting on Wednesday. The letter reads: Dear Developer, For the best part of a year, we have watched, listened and participated in the many arguments for and against your proposed development of Oakdown Farm - bringing to Basingstoke a Distribution Hub of huge proportions. There are extremely valid arguments against the huge impact to the environment, biodiversity, landscape and road accessibility, however it is without a doubt a large investment into the town and creates jobs in these difficult times, ...
More objections have been filed against plans to build warehouses near Junction 7 of the M3 - including from the council's urban design team.
DEVELOPERS wanting to build a massive warehouse site near the M3 have pledged £1.4 million in bus services to the town. Newlands, who are currently awaiting planning permission for Basingstoke Gateway at Oakdown Farm, near Junction 7, have said that they will pay the money to subsidise bus services from the town centre to the site. It will fund bus services between 5am and 7pm for three years, whilst also contributing to a new mass rapid transit system earmarked by both the borough and county council as a future cornerstone of public transport in the town. Newlands’s development di...