Test Valley Borough Council’s Southern Area Planning Committee approved the Reserved Matters Planning Applications for Mountbatten Park on the evening of Tuesday the 8th of June 2021. This completes a planning journey dating from the outline application in October 2016.
Approval for new development in Romsey
It is particularly welcome that the Committee was unanimous in its approval and supportive of The Partnership’s Building a Legacy approach. Commenting on the application Test Valley’s Design Review Panel considered this was “an unusually well considered housing scheme resulting in a layout that promises to deliver an interesting and satisfying conclusion.”
Local Members were quoted appreciatively in the media. Cllr Mrs Celia Dowden said:
"There has been a lot of thought that has gone into this and I think people will be happily surprised when they see what will be developed there, because it is a lovely site.”
Cllr Alan Dowden added:
"We are very pleased with the outcome and we wanted to have a development that everybody could be proud of in the end, and I think we have achieved that. I am sure in the long term people will be pleased with it."
This approval now enables The Ashfield Partnership to prepare to make a start early next year with construction.
