Planning

REDROW Homes has vowed to appeal the refusal of its bid to ditch having to build a £1m bridge link to Lymington Railway Station.

RESIDENTS have given the green light to a proposed “community-led” hyper-local vision for New Milton which includes creating a new youth centre.

NFDC's ruling cabinet backed policies that aim to help protect New Forest areas from the effects of incoming development and visitors.

An application to build 10 flats on Somerford Road has been refused after BCP Council said the buildings had a “hostile, poor quality” appearance.

PLANS for a large new housing estate in Fordingbridge have been refused after New Forest District Council received 70 letters of objection.

FEARS of increased anti-social behaviour were raised as residents and stakeholders heard more about major plans to enhance Ashley recreation ground.

PLANS to build two bespoke homes in a New Milton pub car park have been criticised by a local vicar.

FAST food firm McDonald’s has put forward proposals to open its second restaurant in Christchurch.

BUILDING work has begun at a site near Totton to construct 80 affordable homes – which will go to people with a local connection.

MEMBERS of a drug recovery group alleged a heroin dealer targets a parade of Poulner shops at a bid by Tesco to get an alcohol licence.

An owner of the Noisy Lobster on Avon Beach has hit out at a ‘small band’ of residents for ‘scaremongering’ over its planning applications.

DISCOUNT chain Home Bargains is seeking permission to extend its store into the neighbouring unit at Christchurch Retail Park.

A PUBLIC inquiry will be held into plans for 44 new retirement apartments at one of the gateways into Lymington.

THE future of a community shop has been secured after the NPA approved plans for it to co-locate in an extension to Boldre War Memorial Hall.

A Fordingbridge woman has escaped eviction from her cottage home after proving she had broken planning rules for at least a decade.

MAJOR design changes will not be made to the £1.2m plan to revamp the toilets at Lymington's Town Quay, NFDC has said, despite criticism.

NEW plans have been submitted for the replacement of the Beach House Café on Mudeford Sandbank.

RINGWOOD councillors have slammed a plan to build 400 homes on the edge of town as an 'overdevelopment'

THE New Forest National Park Authority has promised to reinstate a planning officer who can be contacted by phone after complaints by residents.

A conservation group wants design changes made to the £1.2m revamp of Lymington quay toilet block.