Old Police Station in Fleet, Hampshire
The Greens from North East Hampshire have been busy today taking pictures of a number of sites across the district. Like We Heart Hart, they think it is madness to be focusing the Hart Local Plan on building a new town on our beautiful green fields in Winchfield when there is so much under-utilised brownfield land.
However, some of the sites identified are quite probably not suitable as for example, Tweseldown and Hawley Lake are in or near the Thames Valley Basin SPA and the site near Basingstoke Canal is an SSSI.
If you would like to ask Hart District Council to think again, please sign our petition:
Nevertheless it is important we stretch every sinew to find brownfield sites and make the most of them. Hart assume a meagre 30 dwelling per hectare on brownfield land, when studies have shown that it is possible to create thriving communities with densities nearly 10x that level.
Thank you to Andrew Johnston from the North East Hampshire Green Party for the images. He has posted them on his Twitter feed.
