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Can our village cope... - paul (10th Jan 2025 - 14:33:48) Hi, According to government statistics, we need to build at least over 1140+ new homes going forward, in our postcode area. . To-date 442 new homes were built since 2021, an 62% increase on future building. I well understand the huge need for a roof over people's head, and growing up and living in our area. The infrastructure in Liphook obviously does not cope in 2025. Roads, shopping, etc.... Can we save current, and future generations, in Liphook with better planning for our living?

Re: Can our village cope... - M (10th Jan 2025 - 16:16:01) Unfortunately Paul you're not quite correct with your figures. 1140 Homes per year isn't for the GU30 postcode, it's for EHDC District as a whole. Still a mighty number and your concerns are well founded, especially considering that just about 50% of the District is within the SDNP and they're not interested in taking their fair share so most of those houses need to be built in just 50% of the total area! Very unfair.

Re: Can our village cope... - RM (10th Jan 2025 - 16:51:00) Yes it’s quite right SDNP are causing huge distress in community’s . The siting of new developments is causing problems because they can’t be put in the most efficient place to get the best out of any new developments. Developments are having to be put in totally the wrong place causing havoc with roads and infrastructure. SDNP needs to get real and re think some of their boundaries for the good of community’s they should listen to the people that actually live there and not be so pig headed and high and mighty.

Re: Can our village cope... - Charlie (10th Jan 2025 - 17:33:08) M it is even worse than that. 57% of East Hampshire is in the SDNP leaving only 43% outside the National Park. I agree SDNP need to start looking at suitable sites for building houses such as Bohunt Manor and stop sticking their heads in the sand.

Re: Can our village cope... - Bush (11th Jan 2025 - 07:52:37) Are we still in the realm of 'should', as in how we wish the housing crisis to be tackled, or is this already a done-deal, it 'will' happen? When we were still in the realm of 'should', we should: -build housing in the dead town centres and abandoned highstreets, ex-industrial etc -build for legitimate legal residents alone, taxpayers etc -build high-density multi-storey as is good enough elsewhere around the world Instead, we're tools in the hand of greedy developers and politicians with illegitimate access to taxpayers money. They want to build the wrong type of housing for the wrong people in the wrong places. Suddenly ecology and environment are no consideration when suits. People deserve roof over their head, not land-grabbing cottages.

Re: Can our village cope... - Joe (11th Jan 2025 - 11:31:54) I agree with Bush we will be expected to cope with higher levels of house building imposed on us. The labour government was voted in by a huge majority ( admittedly not in Hampshire or Surrey) but we now have to deal with their policies. Neither government nor the SDNPA are looking to alter boundaries just to benefit a property developer who is probably not going to adhere to any vague references in their brochure. They will provide what the planning authority tell them they must provide to get the planning permissions.

Re: Can our village cope... - AF (12th Jan 2025 - 19:52:39) No point saying no we can't cope the labour government will not listen to people in a solid conservative area. So let's use the extra building as an opportunity to get the facilities the village needs from developer contributions, this should.include extra roads around the village to alleviate the pressure on the square, and also things for the youth to do. Most important is to use the money locally I believe some local developer contributions went to Gosport on one occasion, it must be kept in liphook for liphook things.

Re: Can our village cope... - Trevor Maroney (12th Jan 2025 - 20:47:10) Dear Paul The Bramshott & Liphook Neighbourhood Development Plan (recently approved by referendum) should be able to answer your question on whether our village can cope with more housing. That is what it was designed to do and has the full endorsement of the parish council. Trevor Maroney

Re: Can our village cope... - Rue (13th Jan 2025 - 20:29:49) No, the village can’t cope. Nor should it have to. We actually don’t need to build more houses, there are plenty already, what we need to do is encourage people from having more than one. Don’t be so greedy. There is much concern about climate change and green energy, but does the government think that by building more houses it will improve this? Overbuild will create more problems: flooding, greenhouse gases, pollution, not to mention overstretched resources. Liphook is a retail desert, monopoly by the orange peril . ScarceGP surgeries, limited. communications, unreliable train service, a virtual bus travel ie it only exists online. Apart from that, the sheer lack of aesthetics of new builds is enough to turn a green and pleasant land into a visual nightmare of never ending bland, featureless dwellings. In 7my humble and probably worthless opinion.

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