Bushfield Camp Planning Application Workshop
Planning Application Workshop
Save Bushfield Camp Group is holding a workshop to help you comment on the Bushfield Camp Planning Application on Saturday 25 November from 11am to 2pm at Badger Farm Community Centre.
Background
An outline planning application has been submitted to Winchester City Council for an employment-led scheme on the Bushfield Camp by the Church Commissioners for England. The deadline to comment, object to or support the application has been extended until 7 December. You can comment online (details below).
The outline planning application doesn’t give much detail apart from access to and from the site and to academic accommodation, a hotel, and other complementary/ancillary uses including a nursery, retail including shops, restaurants, cafés, bars visitor and exhibition space, leisure and sports uses.
Important Policies from the Winchester District Local Plan
Many national and local planning policies are used to decide whether an application is granted. We have listed some of the important policies from the Winchester District Local Plan. You may wish to comment on how the development may be contrary to any of these using your own words.
- WT3 – Bushfield Camp Employment Site: defines the criteria for development under the existing Local Plan
- DM23 – Rural Character: Bushfield Camp is defined as a rural site
- Policy CP10 – Transport
- Policy CP16 – Biodiversity
- Policy CP18 – Settlement Gaps
- Policy CP19 – South Downs National Park
- Policy CP20 – Heritage and Landscape Character
- Policy CP21 – Infrastructure and Community Benefit
- Policy DM18 – Access and Parking
The application and all associated documents can be found on the Planning section of the Winchester City Council website. Search planning applications using 23/02507/OUT or Bushfield.
The Winchester and District Local Plan Part 1 and Part 2 adopted policies can be viewed here.
How to comment
You can express your stance (Object, Support, Neutral) and add a comment via the Make a Comment button on the planning application on the Council’s website. You can also write to the City Council Planning Office, Amy Winch, c/o Winchester City Planning Department, City Offices, Colebrook Street, Winchester, SO23 9LJ. Comments are published in the Documents section of the planning application.
Thank you
Thanks for your support,
Save Bushfield Camp Group
Badger Farm & Oliver’s Battery Residents’ Community Association
working with Local Parish Councils and other Community Bodies
Email: bfobrca.manager@gmail.com
I just don’t see that we need this facility in Winchester. Were have a massive new sports centre. We have several very good large supermarkets, we need to reinvigorate our town centre with independent shops not out of town shopping – we already have plenty at Winnal. Housing and schools we might need but there is a huge development still unfinished on the Andover Road. The current theatre and Library / exhibition space is under used so why do be need more and as for academic accommodation – really? Winchester University is already too big and cutting down on some of it’s best courses so we don’t need another education factory. It just feels like an excuse for a developer to make money and for us to loose a green belt and nature, Currently is is a great resource for walking close to Badger Farm and the city centre
Hello Karen,
You raise some very good points. If you haven’t already, we would encourage you to also add your comment directly on the planning application (details of how to do this are in the post above). That way, we can be sure that they will be seen by the relevant bodies and taken into consideration in any decisions on the application.
ok will try to do that
Karen what is the large unfinished development on Andover Road? I’ll possibly mention this in one of my objection points. Thank you – I’ll be popping into badger farm today to show my support . I’ve been working with another group alongside this one and our biggest worry is time to get the objections in!