Planning

A PLEDGE to provide 19 affordable homes helped secure Pennyfarthing Homes permission to build 64 properties on land at Fordingbridge.

HUNDREDS of new jobs could be created after New Forest district councillors greenlit development of Marchwood military port.

FEARS have been raised that a new freeport will make it harder to resist the return of plans to develop Dibden Bay into a container terminal.

A CHRISTCHURCH pressure group has called an urgent meeting to debate the impact new planning policies could have on the town.

RINGWOOD residents will get the chance to quiz a developer about its plans for 491 homes at a public session.

A PLANNING application has gone in for a 330-home "retirement village" and a 60-bed care home at the Matchams Stadium, near Ringwood.

A CHRISTCHURCH steel manufacturer has been given the green light for a massive expansion of its town centre site.

NEW proposals for nearly 500 homes in Ringwood have sparked fears that the town’s infrastructure cannot cope with more new housing.

A DEVELOPER should be granted permission for 64 new homes in Fordingbridge if 19 are affordable, a report suggests.

A COUPLE have challenged New Forest National Park Authority's refusal of their bid to tear down and replace a mansion on the banks of Beaulieu River

MOVES have been made to apply for a £500,000 loan to help save an ambitious sports project in Ringwood where inflation has tripled costs to near £3m.

AN application to build nine new homes on an “eyesore” site in Brockenhurst has been approved despite concerns over the lack of affordable housing.

PLANS to build 103 new homes on fields and paddocks near Everton Road in Hordle have been submitted to New Forest District Council.

A CHARITY which supports people with learning disabilities and autism hopes to turn a former Lyndhurst B&B in to a care home.

FOURTEEN "out of character" flats in Chewton Farm Road, Walkford, have been given the go-ahead by BCP Council.

LAND at Hythe hospital is set to be developed with 21 affordable homes after NFDC agreed a deal with the NHS to purchase part of the site.

NEW Forest district councillors have granted an outline six-flat plan in Totton, despite concerns it could "push" families out.

CHURCHILL Retirement Living has appealed against refusal by New Forest District Council for 32 retirement flats at Lymington's old police station.

NEW Forest district councillors have given the go-ahead to build 16 affordable homes on land close to Fawcett's Field, New Milton.

WORK is under way to transform a former restaurant in Dibden Purlieu into a new commercial premises with four flats.