Save Manydown

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Save Manydown

• Achieving the numbers without destroying the
  fields

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Headline

• Council can achieve all its numbers
• Without destroying an extra field
• Councils Local Plan is wrong

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What local plan says

• 12,060 homes 1996 - 2011
• 2,000 reserve
• 4,400 homes 2011 - 2016
• 1300 brownfield sites
• 3100 Major development Area Manydown

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Save Manydown Alternative Plan
1996-2011
2011 - 2016
Outcome
Needed 1,100
Target 12,060
Target 4,400
Dec 2003 Built 5,000
More homes from existing sites 900
Brownfield 1,300
To come 8 years _at_ 800 6,400
Windfall sites 500
Reserve carried forward
Reserve 2,000
Reserve 2,000
Increased yields from brownfields 290
Needed 3,100
Needed 1,100
Extras 1,690
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Justify that! (1)

• Example Council said Says now
• North of Popley 850 950
• John Hunt 350
  400
• Aldermaston Rd 100 300
• Old Kempshott Ln 290 330
• Park Prewett 700
  750
• German Rd Bramley 200 277

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Justify that! (2)

• Example SMG Windfall
• Beggarwood Primary school 100
• Beggarwood surgery 24
• Worting primary
  50
• Secondary School closure 350
• Sherfield Park school not built 100?

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Why not a Major Development Area? (1)

• Traffic, pollution noise, all concentrated
• MDA does not cater for existing communities, it
  builds new ones
• takes generations to happen
• Self Fulfilling prophecy
• will attract even more allocations to Basingstoke

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Why not aMajor development Area? (2)

• No services until critical mass achieved
• schools, public transport, amenities all FOLLOW
  housing
• Too many unanswered questions
• new sewerage works?
• Loss of high grade agricultural land
• 1996 Council report confirms

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Why not aMajor Development Area? (3)

• Government guidance says brownfield first,
  greenfield last
• Dont need to sacrifice our green fields to
  achieve our numbers

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What next?

• Want Council to think again
• Councillors misled over numbers when they made
  the decision
• Call it back in
• Important Council considers alternative,
  especially as it co-owns the Manydown site
• If Council wont think again
• SMG present alternative plan to public enquiry

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4,400 homes 2011 to 2016

• Save Manydown Group not arguing with this
• Its higher than Basingstokes natural growth
  rate
• 70 is natural (source Tony Curtis, BADBC)
• But pressure from national Government is high
  futile to fight this

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4,400 homes 2011 to 2016

• Rather than say No, we have shown a better way
• Council saying Major Development Area (MDA) is
  right answer
• Save Manydown Group says you can achieve 4,400
  homes without declaring an MDA or using one extra
  green field

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Basingstoke doing its share

• We are taking 4,400 homes 2011 - 2016
• Organic growth is 3,080
• So 1,320 are Other Boroughs housing
• an increase of 42
• If Government asks for more, the message is we
  have done our bit

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Government talking about STRATEGIC development
areas

• Look at other brownfield options
• Bordon Army camp
• Aldershot army camp
• CPRE suggests looking at MoD sites

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Government talking about STRATEGIC development
areas

• Housing without jobs turns Basingstoke into a
  dormitory town
• Huge pressure on road and rail transport
• OR rising unemployment and the social pressures
  that go with that
• WILL DESTROY BASINGSTOKES CHARACTER AND
  PROSPERITY

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Save Manydown

• Achieving the numbers without destroying the
  fields