Page 41 - Patrick Davies News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A LONG-running major scheme to improve part of Winchester could provide a nearly £300m boost, if plans come to fruition.

KINGSLEY Williams, who has just died aged nearly 94, was best known in Winchester at the senior partner of Dutton Gregory & Williams, where he…

By Letters to the Editor Send us your views on the week's news CGIs of the Winnall Flats scheme SIR: Without hesitating I too would object to the plan to build two new blocks at Winnall Flats. It is not often that I support the Labour Party but I fully support Patrick Davies, and Brian Pitts, with the points they made in a recent edition of the Hampshire Chronicle. More Flats, means more people, more cars, more congestion, more pollution, and many more problems for the infrastructure - as I have witnessed in a ...

Lib Dem councillor Kelsie Learney, portfolio holder for housing and asset management, speaking at the full Council meeting last Wednesday, said the homes were larger than many private flats in Winchester and would be cheaper. She said: "We have researched this and established these are affordable. They are for people already living in the private rented sector and are paying market rents. "The flats will be 39sqm. Some may consider them small some may consider them ideal. The larger they are the more expensive they are. We want to appeal to people who do not have a lot of money but want...

‘AFFORDABLE’ apartments planned for Winchester have been criticised for being too small and unaffordable. In May, an application to build two new blocks at Winnall Flats was approved by Winchester City Council’s planning committee. They will offer 76 new homes, with 32 shared ownership properties in one five-storey block, split into 18 two-bedroom apartments and 14 one-bedroom units. In the second block, also five storeys, there will be 41 sub-market one-bedroom units to rent. Leader of the council Lucille Thompson said that the scheme will fill a “gap in the market” and hel...