Save Manydown

1. Save Manydown “Achieving the numbers without destroying the fields”

2. Headline • Council can achieve all its numbers • Without destroying an extra field • Council’s Local Plan is wrong

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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?

7. 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

8. 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

9. Why not aMajor Development Area? (3) • Government guidance says ‘brownfield first, greenfield last • Don’t need to sacrifice our green fields to achieve our numbers

10. 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 won’t think again • SMG present alternative plan to public enquiry

11. 4,400 homes 2011 to 2016 • Save Manydown Group not arguing with this • It’s higher than Basingstoke’s ‘natural’ growth rate • 70% is ‘natural’ (source Tony Curtis, BADBC) • But pressure from national Government is high: futile to fight this

12. 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

13. 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’

14. Government talking about STRATEGIC development areas • Look at other brownfield options: • Bordon Army camp • Aldershot army camp • CPRE suggests looking at MoD sites

15. 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 BASINGSTOKE’S CHARACTER AND PROSPERITY

16. Save Manydown “Achieving the numbers without destroying the fields”