Meeting Report Archive

Category: Eastleigh Local Plan Proposals

Drinks Party with Auction of Promises

Friday 11th January 2019 7.30pm Upham House Everyone Welcome Thank You: Local villages have raised an amazingly impressive £70,000 for the ADD campaign over the last 12 months and Upham residents have been hugely generous contributors. This invitation comes partly as a Thank You and partly to help further the campaign. Auction of Promises: At...

Local Plan consultation – have your say!

Eastleigh Borough Council have welcomed almost 600 people to the consultation drop-in sessions so far. At the sessions you can look at documents and maps and ask any questions you might have about the Eastleigh Borough Local Plan.  Remember to ensure that you respond to the consultation by midnight on Monday 6 August.  All the...

Eastleigh Borough Council Local Plan update – 22 June 2018

Eastleigh Borough Council’s Local Plan 2016-2036 consultation will get underway at 12 noon on Monday 25 June 2018. The consultation will run until 12 midnight on Monday 6 August 2018. As agreed at the meeting of the Council in December, the Local Plan would be signed off by the Chief Executive under delegated powers following...

Fighting Eastleigh’s proposed Local Plan: we can win, but only with more funds…

We hope you had a happy Christmas and new year – and that it doesn’t seem too long ago! The ADD team (from Upham and elsewhere) is now ready to resume our fight for the right Local Plan for Eastleigh – one that genuinely addresses the housing needs of local people without wrecking the environment...

Thanks to all of you who turned out on Monday evening to Eastleigh Borough Council’s meeting.

Despite the vote going the wrong way, (as we had fully expected) we remain convinced as ever that we can defeat the council’s proposed Local Plan. Indeed the Council’s extraordinary decision, which hands over the most important decision affecting Eastleigh and surrounding area for a generation to be taken by an unelected officer without allowing...

Eastleigh Local Plan – Meeting held on 20th July 2017

Big thank you to all those Upham residents who turned out last night to make our voice heard so literally. Well done everybody! Eastleigh Councillors can’t have had a clearer impression of the strength of opposition from the numbers who showed up, despite having arranged for this meeting to be next door to the big...

Eastleigh Local Plan – Village Meeting

Village Meeting Eastleigh Local Plan 2016-2036 Thursday, 29th September at 7.30pm Upham School Hall If Options B and C go ahead, we will have a new settlement of over 6,000 new homes, twice the size of Bishops Waltham, on the unspoilt countryside south of Upham, between Fair Oak and Bishopstoke and reaching right up to...

Update on Eastleigh Local Plan: Impact on Upham

And what YOU can do to help For those who were not able to attend the meeting that the Parish Council held in January, you may be thinking: “We live in Winchester District and are further protected by the South Downs National Park, how can Eastleigh’s plan to build more houses have any effect on...

Response from Upham to Eastleigh Local Plan Proposals

The following is the response from the Upham Parish Council to the Eastleigh Borough Local Plan Proposals. Anyone who wants to add their own response will need to do so by 5pm on Wednesday 17th February. Background Upham Parish Council (“ UPC”) was extremely disappointed that, despite the wide-ranging impact of the proposals in the...

Eastleigh Local Plan Proposals

You may be aware that Eastleigh has recently published a Consultations and Options Document opening a discussion about their plans for development for the next 20 years. For details see Eastleigh Borough Council The document identifies housing demand over this period of between 14,000 and 20,000 properties.  They believe that sites for 10,000 of these...