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6.3 Chandler’s Ford and Hiltingbury

create a valued local character. However, Chandler’s Ford Parish access to larger areas of open space such as the country parks is limited and there Context and key issues is some evidence that Chandler’s Ford and Hiltingbury lack open space and sports 6.3.1 The parish of Chandler’s Ford is located facilities. Velmore has a significant green to the north-west of Eastleigh west of corridor running east to west on either and bounded by the M3, and merges side of Falkland Road and directly parallel with the Valley Park development in Test to the north of Cambridge Drive and Valley Borough to the west. It includes Nursery Gardens. This connects through to Hiltingbury to the north and the Velmore Fleming Park which provides a significant area to the south where there has been resource for the Velmore area. substantial recent redevelopment of the housing stock. Originally a collection of 6.3.3 The Borough Council has defined a farms, Chandler’s Ford was located on an number of Character Areas within important route between Southampton Chandler’s Ford and Hiltingbury with and Winchester, and started to grow a view to preserving and encouraging when brick works became established enhancement of their special qualities. in the area. Development has included There are no conservation areas and only substantial areas of employment, some three listed buildings within the area. based on the former brickworks site. 6.3.4 The Chandler’s Ford Industrial Estate west In 2011 the population of the area was of Bournemouth Road is one of the largest 23,916 and there were 10,270 dwellings in the Borough, while the Hampshire (2011 Census). In 2015 the population had Corporate Park and the major new ofces increased to 24,421 people71. of Chestnut Avenue (west of the M3) are 6.3.2 Although very substantially developed, some of the most modern. Drapers Tools Chandler’s Ford and Hiltingbury retain currently has its headquarters on Hursley some important green spaces and amenity Road but has recently been granted areas, some of local biodiversity interest, planning permission to redevelop its site including the Flexford and Hocombe Mead for residential development and a care Nature Reserves, the Lakes of Lakewood home. Drapers Tools will relocate to their Road, Cuckoo Bushes and Ramalley site at North Baddesley. Copse. Parts of the area, in particular at 6.3.5 There is a district centre of some size at Hiltingbury, have been developed with Chandler’s Ford centred on the Fryern larger houses set in mature grounds that Arcade, with other shopping areas in close

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proximity such as Central Precinct. Some and an associated need for facilities to of these are in need of refurbishment or meet their needs – there is some evidence redevelopment, in particular the Fryern of behavioural issues that could be Arcade and Central Precinct. Frontages addressed by provision of diversionary to Bournemouth Road and Hursley Road activities. could also benefit from environmental improvements. The parade at Falkland 6.3.9 Elsewhere within the parish, there has Road is generally well used and occupied. been significant regeneration within the On the southern edge of the parish is Velmore estate (an area with evidence of an Asda supermarket which attracts deprivation) where existing housing stock a significant number of shoppers and has been redeveloped and refurbished, provides competition for the smaller retail along with the provision of enhanced businesses within the parish and beyond. community facilities.

6.3.6 The parish’s eastern boundary adjoins 6.3.10 The parish is well-supplied with schools the M3. The M3 is designated as an air and Thornden and Toynbee Schools quality management area along the entire are amongst the most popular in the length that adjoins the parish boundary, Borough. reflecting the potential health impacts 6.3.11 Chandler’s Ford and Hiltingbury’s 20-20 that the motorway can have on residents Vision sets out health priorities for the who live in close proximity. area. These include issues relating to 6.3.7 Roads within the parish are well used young people including alcohol abuse, as through-routes, particularly the links family and peer pressure, poor diet, lack to junctions 12 and 13 of the M3 and of exercise and the need for diversionary junction 5 of the M27. There are concerns activities. The Vision also refers to air about the impact of development in pollution, public transport, promoting Test Valley Borough and the implications healthy activities in and around schools, this could have for trafc movements, and deterring the use of cars particularly particularly through Hiltingbury. Trafc for the school run. It also includes management measures are in place to proposals for support for older people limit its impact. There is a local railway such as the Good Neighbours Scheme. station in Chandler’s Ford, successfully 6.3.12 There may also be a need for additional re-opened in recent years. There are cemetery provision, although there is frequent high quality bus services to capacity to serve this area in the cemetery Winchester and Southampton, but at Brookwood in Eastleigh. links to Eastleigh Town Centre have proven more difcult to maintain, Development proposals and especially from the Hiltingbury area. special policies 6.3.8 Parts of Chandler’s Ford contain some 6.3.13 The following policies apply in of the more expensive dwellings in the Chandler’s Ford: Borough, particularly at Hiltingbury, and there is a lack of afordable housing CF1 Central Precinct, Chandler’s Ford within the area. The population of these parishes is ageing and there is a higher CF2 Land at Steele Close, Chandler’s Ford proportion of older people than in the rest CF3 Land south of the supermarket of the Borough. However, there remains a and east of Bournemouth Road, reasonable proportion of younger people, Chandler’s Ford

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6.3.14 In addition policy DM24, page 115 lists location of equivalent or better developments with planning permission or quality and size; resolution to permit in the parish. iii. the existing bus-stop facility Housing adjacent to the site shall be retained; Central Precinct iv. development shall take place in accordance with the Borough 6.3.15 An area of approximately 1.2 hectares Council’s development brief for the at the Central Precinct, Chandler’s Ford site; and currently accommodates a mixture of retail, residential and community uses. v. a connection to the sewerage The buildings are of poor quality and system shall be provided at the some age and considered to be suitable nearest point of adequate capacity for replacement. The site provides an as advised by Southern Water, and opportunity for a more intensive and access to the existing sewerage attractive development to be achieved. infrastructure and water main shall be secured for future maintenance 6.3.16 Any redevelopment should ensure that and upsizing purposes, or these that the main road frontage at ground shall be diverted to an accessible floor level is retained for retail use with alternative route the remainder of the site in residential uses. The need to ensure continued vi. a site level Habitats Regulation access and unhindered operation of the Assessment is required to commercial business to the immediate demonstrate how this site will be south-east of the site is recognised. delivered without adverse efect on The Borough Council has prepared a any European site. development brief for this site. 6.3.17 A site level Habitats Regulations Assessment will be required to Policy CF1, Central Precinct, demonstrate the detail of how this site Chandler’s Ford will be delivered without adverse efect on any European site. Particular reference An area of approximately 1.2 hectares should be made to the findings of the of land at Central Precinct, Chandler’s Habitats Regulation Assessment of the Ford, as defined on the policies map Local Plan with regards to the River is allocated for redevelopment to Itchen SAC, Solent Maritime SAC, Solent accommodate approximately 85 and Southampton Water SPA and Ramsar dwellings and A1, A2 or A3 uses subject site and the avoidance and mitigation to the following conditions: measures identified. These include:

i. ground floor town centre uses shall a. careful design of new development, be retained on the frontage of the informing new residents and site onto Bournemouth Road; commitment to monitoring with ii. the existing social club and snooker regard to risk introducing invasive non- club shall be relocated within the native species site, or to an alternative of-site

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b. adherence to a Construction ii. proposals are supported by a flood Environmental Management Plan risk assessment and flood mitigation and utilisation of standard pollution proposals; control guidance with regard to impacts on water quality; and iii. the proposals do not include noise- sensitive uses; c. avoidance measures with regard to disturbance of otters and protection iv. there is no significant impact on the of watercourses to preserve the otter amenities of surrounding occupiers; movement network. and v. it can be demonstrated that Employment allocations: development would not have a Land at Steele Close, Chandler’s Ford detrimental impact on the air quality at the junction of Leigh Road 6.3.18 An area of 1.3 hectares of land at, Steele and the northbound slip road at Close, Chandler’s Ford is presently used junction 13 of the M3. as an operational fire station. A car rental business has recently been given 6.3.19 A site level Habitats Regulations planning permission to operate from Assessment will be required to another building on the site that was demonstrate the detail of how this site previously used as an ambulance station. will be delivered without adverse efect A significant area of the south-western on any European site. Particular reference part of the site is identified by the should be made to the findings of the Environment Agency as being within a Habitats Regulation Assessment of the functional floodplain (flood zone 3b). The Local Plan with regards to the River Itchen site is immediately adjacent to junction SAC, Solent Maritime SAC, Solent and 13 of the M3 which generates significant Southampton Water SPA and Ramsar noise and air quality issues. In view of site and the avoidance and mitigation these constraints, the Council considers measures identified. These include: that if the site were to come forward a. careful design of new development, for redevelopment, it should be re-used informing new residents and for commercial purposes rather than commitment to monitoring with residential development. regard to risk introducing invasive Policy CF2, Land at Steele non-native species Close, Chandler’s Ford b. adherence to a Construction Environmental Management Plan An area of approximately 1.3 hectares of and utilisation of standard pollution land at Steele Close, Chandler’s Ford, as control guidance with regard to defined on the policies map is allocated impacts on water quality; and for B1(b), B1(c), B2, B8, car showroom or other similar sui generis uses subject to c. avoidance measures with regard to the following conditions: disturbance of otters and protection of watercourses to preserve the otter i. it is demonstrated that the site is no movement network. longer required by the emergency services;

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