Brook House A new garden neighbourhood for Fleet Brook House A new garden neighbourhood for Fleet Contents

Th akeham Our vision Key features

1. Th e site today 2. Planning context 3. Refl ecting local character 4. Constraints and opportunities 5. Design Principles 6. Masterplan 7. Landscape and open space 8. SANG strategy 9. Access strategy 10. Flood risk and drainage 11. Noise mitigation 13. Th e benefi ts of development 14. Delivery Thakeham Our proven track record

Thakeham Homes has fl ourished and evolved into an independent regional housebuilder across the South East with a positive reputation for delivering quality houses within thoughtfully designed and attractive places to live.

Thakeham supports key values in every development it creates, with a vision to ensure cohesive working with a Site’s natural features as a core principle of design. Respecting the local vernacular and enhancing natural features ensures the creation of a real sense of place within a development.

With a highly qualifi ed management team and developed procedures and systems, Thakeham has the ability to produce a quality product in a timely fashion, on Sites ranging from small and medium developments to sustainable urban extensions. They work positively and proactively with local residents, councils and other stakeholders to drive quality design, making a positive contribution to the locality that surrounding communities and future residents can be proud of.

The delivery of this Site could provide a socially, environmentally and economically sustainable extension to the north of Fleet, providing much needed new homes in a sustainable location. Recent Thakeham developments Our Vision A new garden neighbourhood for Fleet

Brook House lies in the heart of and evolved organically to become established as a Victorian ‘gentleman’s residence’ situated within a day’s journey of London. Today, it is strategically located close to junction 4a of the M3 motorway and within 15 minutes walking distance of Fleet railway station.

The parkland setting of Brook House is enhanced further by the dense and attractive woodland blocks which surround the site. This mature landscape setting provides the perfect opportunity for creating a new parkland neighbourhood, which is embraced by and permeated with woodland, individual trees, tree groups and riparian features such as ponds and ditches.

Our proposals for Brook House seek to respect these built and natural features and to complement the landscape framework with a network of new parks, linear greenways and high quality public realm. These new spaces will provide the setting for a high quality new parkland neighbourhood which will be a positive addition to the town of Fleet. Brook House and its immediate setting

Woodland in the northern half of the site ‘The Mere’ is an attractive feature next to the house

7 Key features A new garden neighbourhood

Our aspirations for a new neighbourhood at Brook House seek to refl ect this perfect blend of high quality urban living, that is in harmony with its natural and historic surroundings. Using the existing natural features of the site and setting as the framework for the emerging masterplan, the new neighbourhood could feature the following placemaking elements:

• A distinct community which is directly linked to Fleet whilst responding to the attractive landscape setting

• A high quality development which refl ects traditional local building styles

• New homes laid out in coherent groupings of formal avenues, crescents and tree lined squares

• A central park at the heart of the village overlooked by housing and a community facility

• A vibrant and easily accessible mixed use core embracing commercial, education and community uses

• A network of parkland which permeates through the scheme on the alignment of the streams, hedgerows, tree belts and woodland groups

• Public access to 30ha of new parkland, accessible woodland and Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG)

• A contained site that is surrounded by constrained land ensuring no further expansion of Fleet

• A sustainable and productive place where allotments characterise the environment

• A distinctive street scene which runs through the heart of the scheme, characterised by a succession of evolving vistas and glimpsed views out to the open countryside 9 1. The site today

The site is located outside the settlement boundary of the site, is a Grade II Listed boundary of Fleet, within the administrative Building. The Lodge is associated with Minley boundary of Council (HDC). Manor, of whose grounds, bounding the site to the north, are a Registered Park and Garden. The site, of approximately 45 hectares, currently Minley Manor is currently owned by the Ministry comprises some agricultural fi elds (Agricultural of Defence (MoD), who took ownership of the Land Classifi cation Grade 4 and 5), and a property in 1934. small number of buildings including residential properties, such as Brook House and agricultural Location and access outbuildings. None of the buildings within the site are nationally Listed. Access to the site is obtained from the B3013 via a private driveway to Brook House The site is bounded to the west by the B3013 and The Lodge. and to the south by the M3. There are several radio masts located in the south of the site The B3013 runs along the western boundary of adjacent to the M3. the site and provides a main link to the nearby settlements of to the north and Fleet to Whilst the site is located north of the M3, it has the south. good transport links to Fleet, and is located less than 1 mile from employment opportunities at Wider links from the B3013 to Farnborough the Ancells Business Park, convenience retail further southeast are easily accessible from facilities, and Fleet train station with regular the A3013 at Fleet. Both the B3013 and services to London Waterloo, Basingstoke and Blackbushes Road link directly with the A30 Poole. (approx 2.4km north), providing a main arterial route through the wider district. The primary shopping frontage of Fleet is located south of the station, within 2 miles of Access to the M3 directly south of the site the site entrance. Additionally, the site is located is obtained from Minley Road, which travels approximately 2 miles from the Primary School southeast from the A30 to meet motorway at Elvetham Heath, Court Moor and Calthorpe junction 4a approximately 1.7km east of the site. Park Secondary Schools are situated close to Fleet town centre. Bus The nearest bus service is available from Ancells The site is currently accessed via Minley Road. Road and the B3013 to the south of the site, whereby the number 10 service provides access Fleet Lodge, located adjacent to the northern to Farnborough and . Rail The nearest rail station is located in Fleet 1km south, which provides regular key commuting services to London, Basingstoke, Poole, Southampton and Woking.

Public Rights of Way (PRoW) and other Pedestrian Access Bridleway 1 (B&H BW1) runs east northeast from the B3013 along the northern site boundary where it meets a local track. The bridleway is separated from the site to the south by a raised earthbank and dense vegetation.

Blackwater and Hawley Bridleway 2 (B&H BW2) continues east from the track where it joins Blackwater & Hawley Bridleway 3 (B&H BW3) and extinguishes to the south of King George V Cottages and Minley Road.

Both bridleways run east through MOD access land (restricted access) and provide connections to a network of PRoW at Hawley Common, which afford a circular route around the perimeter of Hawley Lake (1.8km east).

Site location plan 11 View 1 - View looking east along the main access road View 2 - Southern fi elds View 3 - Path along the eastern edge of the site View 4 - Stable block clock tower

View 5 - Public Right of Way on the site’s northern View 6 - Field boundaries in the north of the site View 7 - Existing walls and gardens View 8 - Existing walls boundary

View 9 - Track through the woodland View 10 - Northern fi eld View 11 - Drainage ditches View 12 - Brook House south eastern elevation

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Aerial photograph and photograph viewpoints Site boundary N The approach road looking west