Winchester MP Steve Brine and St Luke city councillor Jamie Scott pulled together all the key players involved in the Pitt Manor development recently (Thursday 25 July).
Pitt Manor will see 200 new houses built just off the Romsey Road in the city centre of Winchester as well as a new Park and Ride site. It was granted outline planning permission in 2012 after an appeal to the Planning Inspector having been twice turned down by local councillors at Winchester City Council.
The cross-party meeting – which was chaired by Mr Brine - involved city and county councillors, senior council officers from both authorities, representatives from Turley Associates and Orchard Homes as well as St Peter's School.
The developer outlined their plans for the full planning application which they said is due to be submitted "sometime in the next few weeks" and lengthy discussion was held around the road changes that will accompany the homes, including the new Pitt Manor access off the main road and the soon to be re-designed junction of Stanmore Lane and Romsey Road; known locally as 'top junction'.
Steve Brine says; "The Pitt Manor development is going to happen because it was granted outline planning permission by the Inspector and whatever our view of that decision, we have to make the best of it. The full 'Reserved Matters' planning application is the next step and it's important we have the maximum community involvement so we get the detail, such as the road changes, absolutely right. I hope this meeting was a useful part of that process."
The timetable residents have to respond to the planning application is relatively short but please note all responses, even those received after the formal notice period, will be accepted by Winchester City Council.
Attending the meeting were; Steve Brine MP, Jenny Robinson & Claire-Louise Noonan - St Peter's School, Andy Hickman – WCC, Lorna Hutchings – WCC, Steve Jenkins – HCC, Cllr Martin Tod, HCC, Cllr Jamie Scott – WCC, Sandie Vining - Local resident, Mark Sennett, Orchard Homes (Pitt Manor) Ltd, Terry Tedder, Orchard Homes (Pitt Manor) Ltd, Mark Smith, Paul Basham Associates (transport consultants), Simon Packer Turley Associates (planning/design consultants)
Pictured; Steve Brine chairs the meeting which was held at the Hampshire Down Pastoral Centre at St Peter's Church in Jewry Street, Winchester on Tuesday 25 July 2013.
More information ...