Autumn Meeting – Wednesday, 23 October – Victoria Hall at 7.30 pm. Our guest speaker will be Taran Matharu from the Elvetham Hotel who will be giving an update on the changes and improvements made to the hotel since the last update to the Society in July 2021. We will also be presenting prizes at this meeting to the winners of our 2024 Front Garden Awards. Look out for more information on this on the village notice boards.
Lodge Farm - Proposed Distribution Centre - As we have previously reported a pre-application has been made (23/02242/PREAPP) to Hart District Council related to a 24hour operation of a new Warehouse Distribution Centre for circa 105,000 sqm of commercial logistics floorspace with ancillary office accommodation, associated car parking provision, plus landscaping and highway works for Land at Lodge Farm, Hook Road, North Warnborough. The site will be situated by the current M3 junction 5 with a new dedicated access from the existing junction. There have been many concerns raised on this site and a dedicated group has been established to directly oppose it (see www.villagesopposewarehouses.org) and while it is not within Hartley Wintney the site is likely to have a significant impact on traffic and pollution in the village. A public meeting was held in Hartley Wintney on June 25 where it became apparent that there was a widespread lack of knowledge of the details of the proposals. Therefore, we encourage you to review both the pre-app and above website to obtain more detail on this potential huge development which is in a pre-dominantly rural area, will adversely affect nearby residents and have a big detrimental impact on the landscape and associated Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
Hampshire County Council tree planting – You may have noticed over the last few months that there has been a number of new trees planted in the pavement highways by Hampshire CC as part of their Climate Change Strategy but did you know that the public can also request for trees to be planted on the highway outside their homes where suitable verges exist. There is a review and approval process for this but if it is something of interest more information can be found at https://www.hants.gov.uk/ (search for “tree planting”). In the first season following planting HCC will visit and water a new tree several times but even better is for the local community to help with this until the tree is sufficiently mature for it to survive by itself.
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