Owens Farm Hop Garden Road Hook
We found out today that the Hop Garden Road appeal we attended was dismissed, so the land at Owens Farm, Hook has been protected from development.
This is great news, although it has to be said that it isn’t at all clear whether the evidence we submitted swayed matters one way or the other.
However, it was upheld that the council does have a current five year land supply. Our evidence, on this occasion was in support of the council, indicating that there was in fact a land supply far in excess of five years because the Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) was too high and the housing supply didn’t include the brownfield redevelopment of employment sites recently started.
Charles Church Homes argued that the Housing Market Assessment was under-cooked and Hart should be building far more houses, in particular, the 1,600 houses from Rushmoor.
So, we should celebrate a small victory.