Newlands

Newlands Major Development Area (MDA), located to the west of Waterlooville, is approximately 211 hectares (521 acres) in size. Grainger has already obtained planning permission for 1,550 new homes, employment, open space and local facilities within the Plant Farm Zone of Newlands.

Winchester City Council has since identified the need for an additional 1,000 new homes in their draft core strategies (the emerging planning policy). In order to ensure the proposed development encompasses the additional homes in a truly sustainable manner Grainger has taken the decision to re-masterplan

Grainger is now working on a new planning application for a development of 2,550 homes. The Grainger team is committed to achieving the highest quality of urban design in order to create a sustainable mixed-use community. The development will aim to achieve best practice in all aspects of design and sustainability.

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We are delighted to announce that Grainger has been granted planning permission for Newlands by a joint committee of Winchester City Council and Havant Borough Council.

The consent will allow Grainger to begin work on the 2,550 family homes, together with supporting social infrastructure, which includes a local community centre, land designated for healthcare and elderly care facilities, as well as two primary schools and a nursery.

Today, the council also granted detailed permission for the first phase of development, submitted alongside the outline application, which includes 194 new homes designed by local architect ADAM Architecture.

The first phase will begin on site later this year.

Initial infrastructure works are anticipated to begin in Autumn 2011 with serviced parcels of development land to be sold onto housebuilders soon thereafter.

John Beresford, director of development at Grainger, said: “Our approach to the design has a feeling of the English Garden Suburb Movement where community well-being is at the heart of our philosophy.

“The new village will provide a sports centre, playing fields, a new local pub, shops and schools. It will also create a new, diverse habitat for local wildlife by including features such as ponds and open spaces. We are very much looking forward to seeing the community come to life.”

In 1810 the whole of the forest of Bere was disafforested (Disafforestation is when the status of a forest is changed from forest to ordinary land and this allows the trees to be removed/felled).

The first inn of Waterlooville was opened in 1815 named in commemoration of a recent event.

By 1831 the first church was completed and consecrated. It cost £1,400 to build.

The boundaries of the civil parish of Waterloo were formed in1858.

By 1896 a summer service of Horse 'buses had begun between Waterloo and Cosham.

Gas lights were first introduced.

Havant and Waterlooville Urban District Council was formed in 1932.

Waterlooville first cinema, the Curzon, opens it's doors.

In the late 1950's a building company called Berg built an estate west of Waterlooville including many bungalows (often jokingly called the iceberg Estate).

The Wellington Arcade shopping precinct opens.

In the 1970's Portsmouth City Council built 2 'overspill' council house estates at Waterlooville. One of these was built at Crookhorn. Another was built at Wecock Farm.

The town centre was closed to traffic in 1981 when Maurepas Way was constructed to take traffic away from the main shopping area.

A new estate was built 1985-87 around Tempest Avenue, east of Queens Inclosure.

The Horizon swimming pool opens.

Dukes Walk is a recently completed purpose built shopping centre in Waterlooville town centre.

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Disafforestation of Bere