The Society takes a keen interest in strategic planning issues and significant local planning applications. Here we look at threats to mid-Hampshire's countryside, and relevant aspects of the planning system.

 
     
    The Hampshire Downs are part of the broad belt of chalk downland that runs through central southern England. Arable farmland dominates this largely rural area, with its extensive views and varied wildlife.  
 
The Hampshire Downs
         
   

Despite receiving over 170 objections prior to its meeting in April 2011, Winchester City Council’s Planning Control Development Committee has approved the construction of a 60-cabin holiday village in Black Wood.

 
         
   

The Society has consistently opposed all of Eagle Star's plans for a new town at Micheldever Station since the first scheme was mooted in 1990. This section reviews the background and brings the story up to date.

 
Micheldever Station Market Town
 
     
    Here we look at some of the political, planning and environmental issues affecting Eagle Star's proposals. These include the Housing Green Paper, the South East Plan, and the Winchester Local Plan.  
Planning and the countryside
 
   
   
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