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Huge housing development plans for Boorley Green go on show
10:39am Friday 14th September 2012 in News
By Julian Robinson, Eastleigh Chief Reporter
How the development at Boorley Green will look
THIS is how a new 1,400-home estate will look in under two years – if controversial plans to bulldoze a Hampshire golf course are given the go-ahead.
Developers want to concrete over the greens and fairways at Botley Park Hotel and build nearly seven times as many homes as there are currently in the tiny neighbouring village of Boorley Green.
As well as the massive housing scheme, the proposals include a new primary school, community buildings, sports pitches, an energy centre and retail employment areas.
A mixture of two, three, four and five-bedroom terraced and detached houses and flats would be built on the huge site. An application could be submitted by the end of the month for the plans, which have gone on public view for the first time at an exhibition in Botley Park Hotel.
The consortium behind the scheme – Ashill Developments, Southern & Regional Developments and Macdonald Hotels – say they have worked hard to consult with the community as they shape their proposals. If the planning process goes as they hope, building work could begin in 18 months.
But many of the protesters who came to see the new vision remained fearful that the huge increase in housing would create traffic misery in the small country lanes surrounding the site and ruin their tranquil way of life.
A spokesman for the Botley Parish Action Group called the plans “unsound, ineffective and unjustified”.
The group has already called for the plans to be thrown out and are calling on residents to raise objections. Alan Benson, who lives on nearby Winchester Street, said: “It is going to destroy Boorley Green, totally and utterly.”
Botley golf course was one of the sites earmarked for development in Eastleigh Borough Council ’s draft local plan, which is out for consultation for another month and which must still be approved by an independent inspector.
Originally it had been promised that any development there would include a proposed Botley bypass to help alleviate traffic problems. But Hampshire County Council ruled out the scheme for the next 20 years and the dependency of the development on the bypass has been removed from the local plan.
Under the council’s planning blueprint, up to 1,000 homes would also be built at Woodhouse Lane, less than a mile from the Boorley Green site.
Comments(21)
SaintDon13
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11:19am Fri 14 Sep 12
hulla baloo
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11:26am Fri 14 Sep 12
Lone Ranger.
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11:28am Fri 14 Sep 12
SaintDon13 wrote:I suggest you go fairaway and have a good scratch and wipe that bogey before you eat your sandwedge and tee.
a fairway to go yet, the members should,stop playing a round, drop their bunker mentality, club together, iron out the facts, see the wood for the trees, there are at least eighteen good reasons not to build on the green belt, oppose the plans.
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The trouble with you rough ones is your no bigger than pin-high and dont represent whats par for the course.
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Georgem
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11:37am Fri 14 Sep 12
Lone Ranger. wrote:You've got those guys down to a tee.
SaintDon13 wrote:I suggest you go fairaway and have a good scratch and wipe that bogey before you eat your sandwedge and tee.
a fairway to go yet, the members should,stop playing a round, drop their bunker mentality, club together, iron out the facts, see the wood for the trees, there are at least eighteen good reasons not to build on the green belt, oppose the plans.
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The trouble with you rough ones is your no bigger than pin-high and dont represent whats par for the course.
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Lone Ranger.
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11:40am Fri 14 Sep 12
Georgem wrote:Its the birdies im after
Lone Ranger. wrote:You've got those guys down to a tee.
SaintDon13 wrote:I suggest you go fairaway and have a good scratch and wipe that bogey before you eat your sandwedge and tee.
a fairway to go yet, the members should,stop playing a round, drop their bunker mentality, club together, iron out the facts, see the wood for the trees, there are at least eighteen good reasons not to build on the green belt, oppose the plans.
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The trouble with you rough ones is your no bigger than pin-high and dont represent whats par for the course.
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BillyTheKid
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12:38pm Fri 14 Sep 12
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
There will come a point where the people will have to vote on whether they want more children or more countryside. For our current way of life to continue, there needs to be tough regulations on population expansion, and mobility between counties.
Take a walk, bus ride, drive, or cycle ride to Witts Hill. Turn left or right and tour the side roads. Rows and rows of houses, it seems like any housing estate. Until you realise there are large areas where there are no trees, bushes or hedges, just endless tarmac, brickwork, and parked cars to look at. It does look very barren and grim. I remember, when I first noticed this some years ago, thinking to myself that this is what most of Hampshire could look like in a hundred years or less.
We see lots of tranquil, beautiful artist's impressions of what new developments will look like, with houses and shops peeping through trees and shrubs, but the reality is never like that. Within a few years the shrubs have died off, the trees look sad and isolated, and all you are really aware of are buildings, and endless swathes of litter-strewn pavemented areas. Bitterne village is a prime example of this.
There are ways to protect and preserve our world, but it's not going to happen if the population continues to increase at its current rate. That is the fundamental problem : where to store more and more people.
Zeo
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12:58pm Fri 14 Sep 12
bigfella777
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1:13pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Smartiepants
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1:28pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Georgem
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1:50pm Fri 14 Sep 12
BillyTheKid
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2:48pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Georgem wrote:B+ Good.
Billy's arguments are fantastic! There's even a hole in one of them! I say we putt it all behind us.
The joke/pun is actually quite funny, working on several levels ! Quite unexpected. Well done ! George needs to maintain this improvement, and avoid distractions.
Huffter
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2:51pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Spot on Billy - and as long as life expectancy keeps increasing it will be an ever increasing problem... perhaps we should have a cull every so often - there are a few people I could nominate!
Georgem
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3:30pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Lone Ranger.
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4:01pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Georgem wrote:Sorry Georgem i am not attempting any more puns ........ as i have been quite put out by the resident nutters comments about me. I have quite clearly upset him.
The similarity between Billy's mock report card, and my actual report cards from school, is quite uncaddy! I give it a fore out of five.
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It is a pity that he has had a personaltiy bypass and takes life too seriously.
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So from now thats it ..... i'm off for chips, with my lamb shank at the club with my mate bandit
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Georgem
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4:44pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Lone Ranger. wrote:Chips? May I suggest wedges!
Georgem wrote:Sorry Georgem i am not attempting any more puns ........ as i have been quite put out by the resident nutters comments about me. I have quite clearly upset him.
The similarity between Billy's mock report card, and my actual report cards from school, is quite uncaddy! I give it a fore out of five.
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It is a pity that he has had a personaltiy bypass and takes life too seriously.
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So from now thats it ..... i'm off for chips, with my lamb shank at the club with my mate bandit
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OSPREYSAINT
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5:08pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Zeo wrote:Nonsense, nobody is going use the train, It's too expensive and inconvenient, the motor car is the only way to travel.
This could help push the plans for reopening the line from Botley to Fareham as a double track (currently single) if demand goes up - so this is all good for the railway :) *touch wood*
OSPREYSAINT
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7:41pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Georgem wrote:I love a pun fest but this one seems to have gone out of bounds.
The similarity between Billy's mock report card, and my actual report cards from school, is quite uncaddy! I give it a fore out of five.
Ginger_cyclist
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1:11am Sat 15 Sep 12
stay local
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2:09am Sat 15 Sep 12
OSPREYSAINT
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8:32pm Sat 15 Sep 12
BillyTheKid wrote:You have got me banged to rights there, I know loads of long winded jokes, but by the time I get to the punch line I always forget what it is. Perhaps you are not clever enough to think of any puns yourself so you use this defense mechanism to hide it.
Puns are for shy people who are incapable of full-length jokes or stories.
ohec says...
11:12am Fri 14 Sep 12