You can read the draft masterplan below.
Whitehill Bordon’s masterplan has been accepted as an overall framework for how development should take place in the town and will be instrumental in ensuring the town gets a new town centre and excellent leisure facilities.
East Hampshire District Council’s Full Council accepted the framework which will guide the town’s regeneration following the expected release of all or part of the Ministry of Defence land.
The masterplan safeguards the town from piecemeal development and ensures that residents get the best possible facilities and infrastructure to support the overall regeneration of the town.
Because it is a framework it is flexible and means that it gives an overall vision for the town – but it will be updated and improved as studies are completed.
It will be taken into consideration when planning applications are decided – so it is a guide to development rather than stipulating exactly how it will take place.
However, the East Hampshire District Local Plan (Second Review) will remain the primary policy consideration for land use proposals.
The masterplan will protect the town from uncoordinated development which would deny the town facilities and infrastructure it so desperately needs.
The masterplan still allows scope for change to housing numbers, density or uses.
The masterplan proposes:
- a new mixed-use town centre with around 30,000 square metres of retail area
- up to three new primary schools, early years centres and a new children’s centre
- improved and larger facilities for the secondary school
- skills training and further education facilities
- sites for commercial leisure facilities
- around 4,000 new homes on the MoD land
- a public sports hub with a leisure centre and pitches
- local healthcare and emergency services
- around 70,000 square metres of eco-business park floorpsace and opportunities for the creation of around 5,500 jobs
- around 127 hectares of new public greenspace
- a central public transport hub and modern public transport system
- retrofitting of existing homes and businesses to improve energy and water efficiency and reduce utility bills
