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Land opposite Highfield lane
- Andrea (31st Aug 2022 09:12:42)
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me the situation of the land opposite Highfield lane (Highfield and Brookham school).
They was talk of 600 homes begining built in 2019. Is this still going ahead? Or will it always be on the cards due to the ownership of the land.
We are interested in moving to the area and just wanted to know.
Thank you so much
Andrea
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- A.R (31st Aug 2022 10:55:05)
If you knew the layout of Liphook you would know this would be disastrous. More traffic impacting the bridge and houses on the Midhurst Rd just for starters.
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Em (31st Aug 2022 11:35:09)
You will find EHDC planning are a law unto themselves they take no notice of the liphook community. Houses built anywhere on that side of liphook will be a complete disaster for liphook.A complete review of our road system with relief roads around our centre is a must before any more houses are built. But unfortunately EHDC donāt see it that way.
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- M (31st Aug 2022 11:45:24)
The 600+ home site was put forward to EHDC as a large site for their emerging local plan. EHDC rejected it and chose two other sites in the district instead. EHDC are now reviewing the progress of their emerging plan and will have to undertake all the analysis done so far and come up with new sites and proposals due to, among many reason, the need to find more homes and encompass new climate change guidance.
Will that site ever be built on? If I had to bet on it I'd say yes it will likely be built on in the next 20 years. The owners, Highfield School/Estate, will keep putting it forward until there's no other sites better than that one and get it included in a plan (be it EHDC or even the local emerging Neighbourhood Development Plan, who's steering group are looking at the site to include in their proposals that will likely be published later this year or early 2023).
If you're thinking of buying a property that overlooks those field's then I wouldn't expect them to stay like that for ever.
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Richard (31st Aug 2022 11:50:29)
It is not off the table as yet
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Em (31st Aug 2022 18:47:25)
As said EHDC donāt care about liphook if they did they would listen to the majority of the community. They have the power to put houses in the right place. And there are a few sites available that could supply us with the much needed infrastructure as well as houses. And until the centre of our village is protected then no more houses on that side of the square. This is a must .
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Alain (1st Sep 2022 10:37:07)
In the likely event of an open and public discussion over the same matter, is there a way to follow the council decisions ? For the sake of Liphook residents
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Penny Williamson (1st Sep 2022 10:53:09)
Em As M says the 600+ home site was put forward to EHDC as a large site for their emerging local plan and EHDC rejected it. What do you call "the right place" for more housing in Liphook?
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Em (2nd Sep 2022 17:02:14)
Penny EHDC have championed the chicken farm development totally unsuitable and again on the wrong side of the square no benefits for liphook. EHDC change their tune on a regular basis a while ago they said the chicken farm was definitely a no go because of its location see what I mean. We have the Bohunt Northcott plans farm land which could give liphook the houses and a great deal of infrastructure yes you are going to say but itās in The NATIONAL Park . That does not matter . Houses CAN be built in the park if it benefits the community as is going on all around us. But again EHDC MUST get it right not the shambles of the wimpy site longmoor road which should have had the link road incorporated in it. Pennally farm hewshott lane again will give a lot of houses and a possibility of a road in the future to Haslemere road. The most important thing is to save our conservation Square the centre of our community and thatās where EHDC and the National Parks are failing us it should be the Number One PRIORITY in their PLANNING.
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Gr (3rd Sep 2022 13:21:31)
Before anymore house we need a ring road and more facilitys other wise we will be at a standstill with traffic, doctors, shops
etc
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Joe (3rd Sep 2022 13:38:56)
EM, EHDC did not reject the 600 houses in Highfield lane for being in the wrong place, it was because they were choosing against other large sites in the EHDC area not just in the Liphook area, and a site in Alton received the honour of the 600 instead. The chicken farm site was included in EHDCs last putative local plan. EHDC have no influence over whether houses get built on large sites put forward in the National Park whether or not the site is close to Liphook has no bearing on the matter. The reality is that in the future probably both sites may be built on so we will not have gained much.
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Em (3rd Sep 2022 18:23:20)
Yes Joe we know all that . Thatās the point EHDC change their minds on a regular basis they reject the chicken farm in the first place now they support it . And they play dirty because they tried to get our Redford Park as a sangs fortunately the local community saw through it because if they had got it then the chicken farm could have claimed it for their sangs which they havenāt got because itās within a 5 mile radius. The same goes for the longmoor road development at the planning meeting HCC presented the suggested 5 relief roads around liphook out of the blue. The speakers had a little time to study it . The man that spoke for the liphook people said that as option 4 came through this development it should be included and the developers should go away and include it. He was cut off short. Many of the planning committee wanted to postpone the decision but the chairman was not having any of it he said they had to decide then . Make of it what you will but it did not sit well with the liphook people in attendance. As saying they have no say in planning if thatās the case then why have a planning committee of course they can support or reject a planning application on all sorts of technical issues. Gr is quite right we need to completely re think where we are going. Our district and county councillors need to step up and support the community even if it makes them unpopular with EHDC.
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Eric Benson (4th Sep 2022 12:37:38)
To add to the comments about development of the chicken farm in Chiltley Lane and fields to the east I add the following observations: ā
1 The chicken farm was subject to a planning application in 2014 which was turned down on appeal, see EHDC reference 227 89 I 006 for the main file and Appeal Ref: APP/M1710/W/15/3129981. Nothing in the intervening years has changed in terms of the unsuitability of that site for development in relation to access by vehicles and/or as a pedestrian, the distance of the site from the centre of the village and its services etc., etc. similarly nothing has changed with regard to the lack of any planned improvements in infrastructure for the village as a whole ā water in and water out, power and telecoms and all that sort of thing.
2 The South Downs National Park, the planning authority for the south-western part of the village, has recently called for sites for development to enable it to meet its housing targets. Please see the article in the Liphook Herald some 3 to 4 weeks ago and the comments from councillor Richard Millard, leader of East Hampshire District Council.
3 If the village āneedsā extra houses it needs not only the infrastructure to support them ā nothing in the plan the moment ā but also for them to be located in a sensible position. Anyone looking at a map of Liphook would soon realise that this will be the lands within the triangle bounded by the Bohunt school, the Deers Hut on the Longmoor Road and The Links Tavern on the old Portsmouth/Petersfield Road. This could be linked to the creation of a relief road running from near The Links to somewhere near the Deers Hat, so taking the traffic looking to find the A3 away from the middle of village entirely.
4 Bramshott and Liphook neighbourhood plan is still in gestation, it seems the make up of that committee has been changed and someone who was a capable chairman "eased out" stop.
5 The East Hampshire District plan is equally in gestation but with goalpost constantly changing, and never be a further interim consultation towards the end of this year, so putting back even further and with the expected date for the necessary final public consultation on the plan as approved by the council even further.
Regards
Eric
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Em (4th Sep 2022 13:54:08)
Thatās Eric more or less as I have said. We all need to look at the map itās quite obvious where developments need to go as and when needed. We must convince EHDC of that fact the National Park have now realised they have to listen to the community. The National Parks are a fantastic body looking after our open spaces and down land but they have.
made some very wrong decisions in placing boundaries all over the country splitting parishes and causing untold havoc.Letās hope all the people involved come together
and make the right decisions .
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Joe (4th Sep 2022 13:58:55)
I think a āgestationā of 7 years for the NDP is an overdue birth to be polite about it. Things will always change in planning terms, I think with a new Prime Minister attitudes towards housing will change again. Regardless of where the houses go infrastructure will not be forthcoming. Policy is that we should not use our cars as much so planners will not be swayed by a ring road.
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Em (4th Sep 2022 14:41:05)
Wishful thinking Joe with the birth of the electric car probably a need for more roads. As for infrastructure the developers must be made to put this in or no houses. The developers contribution that goes to EHDC must be spent where the development takes place this could help with infrastructure.At the moment hardly any from liphook gets spent in liphook. Lots of things could be done with the right people in charge. But donāt hold your breath.
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Resident (4th Sep 2022 15:25:52)
And donāt forget Joe with the Unionās trying to bring the country to a standstill we will all have to take to our cars .
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Re: Land opposite Highfield lane
- Eric Benson (7th Sep 2022 14:08:06)
Read the thread about the NDP and chairman Kevin Wyeth resignation and draw your own conclusions.
Regards
Eric
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