See below for timescales and What to do now!

Please help by contacting our Tadley Town Councillors and all those provided in the contact lists below:  (i) to express your feelings on the proposal, and (ii) to specifically oppose the Outline Planning Application  https://planning.basingstoke.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=S8WMGXCRLIT00&activeTab=summary. 

• We also need you to write to the Planning team, Economic, Planning and Housing (EPH) Committee - and our MPs.  The latter are crucial.  Note:  Councillors cannot forward your correspondence to other parties.

• Please encourage as many people in Tadley and Pamber as possible to do the same - we can make a difference and STOP this proposal.

• If you are happy to do so, .cc us at: email@tprp.co.uk.  (NB. Please refer our Privacy Policy to see how we will retain your personal information and details.)
• This Outline Planning Application has been been made against massive public criticism and the lengthy and detailed process which removed the proposal from the draft Local Plan

** At a minimum, we suggest you write to / email the following:  **

• Send your comments to planning.comments@basingstoke.gov.uk and COPY-IN clerk@tadleytowncouncil.gov.uk and clerk@pamber-pc.gov.uk - that way you will automatically be registered for any further updates regarding this proposal.

• We also need you to write to the Planning team, Economic, Planning a Housing (EPH) Committee - and our MPs.  The latter are crucial.  Note:  Councillors cannot forward your correspondence to other parties.

• local.plan@basingstoke.gov.uk.

• Other relevant councillors: ​Paul Harvey, Council Leader:​Cllr.Paul.Harvey@basingstoke.gov.uk; ​Chloe Ashfield, Chair, Economic, Planning and Housing Committee:​​​​​​​ Cllr.Chloe.Ashfield@basingstoke.gov.uk.

Bewley Homes' have now made an Outline Planning Application despite massive public objection and having been removed from the draft Local Plan which went to Reg18 Consultation on 22nd January 2024.

• We would urge you to engage in the draft Local Plan consultation.  Local Plan Update (Regulation 18) | Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Online Consultation Portal 

• Essentially make your views known about the Outline Planning Application. Here  24/00349/OUT | Outline planning application for up to 245 homes (use class C3); a Convenience Store (use class E); vehicular access from Aldermaston Road (A340), and the provision of; cycle and pedestrian access, open space, landscaping, SuDS, and other associated infrastructure. All matters reserved except for access. | Land Off Skates Lane Pamber Green Hampshire (basingstoke.gov.uk) 

• NB.  *The Manydown development site (situated off Roman Road, Winklebury) was purchased by the council 30 years ago, with the specific intention of building social housing here, on a new purpose-built estate (3,520 homes) - with main roads and connections to the A339 Ring Road, local services and healthcare amenities, a school - and proper transport links and bus routes.)  (See: Manydown (basingstoke.gov.uk, also Manydown Garden Communities shaping great places - Home (manydownbasingstoke.co.uk). 

• It is essential, therefore, that we mobilise NOW and as many people as possible voice their collective opposition to the Skates Lane proposal.

• There are many other speculative development plans around south and west Tadley. All of them should be stopped before they start. e.g 70 dwelling south of The Green with an access road onto A340 opposite Manse Lane 

• Please, please then, email or write to Tadley Town Council, Pamber Parish Council and your local councillor with your views - we have provided a list of recommended public representatives and bodies below.

• Cllr.Androulla.Johnstone@basingstoke.gov.uk

• Cllr.David.Leeks@basingstoke.gov.uk

• Cllr.Jo.Slimin@basingstoke.gov.uk

• Cllr.Kerry.Morrow@basingstoke.gov.uk

• Cllr.Mike.Bound@basingstoke.gov.uk     

• Cllr.Ken.Rhatigan@basingstoke.gov.uk

• South Ward |  Chairman and Planning Committee  |   Simon.Greaves@pamber-pc.gov.uk 

• North Ward  |  Vice-Chairman and Planning Committee  |  Chris Goss  |  clerk@pamber-pc.gov.uk

• North Ward and Planning Committee  |  Phillip Kingston  | clerk@pamber-pc.gov.uk

• North Ward and Planning Committee  |  Roger Gardiner  | RogerGardiner.nuthatch@googlemail.com

• South Ward  |  Mary Hale  |  c/o clerk@pamber-pc.gov.uk

• South Ward  |  Stephen Howis  |  StephenHowis@yahoo.co.uk

• North Ward  |  George McGarvie  |  George.McGarvie@pamber-pc.gov.uk

• South Ward  |  Lynda Parker-Schwarz  |  c/o clerk@pamber-pc.gov.uk

• South Ward, Planning Committee and Pamber Forest Advisory Committee   |  Judith Tyson  |  Judith.Tyson@pamber-pc.gov.uk

• North Ward  |  Avril Woodford  |  c/o clerk@pamber-pc.gov.uk

• Borough Councillor  |  Androulla Johnstone  |  Cllr.Androulla.Johnstone@basingstoke.gov.uk

• Borough Councillor  |  Jo Slimmin  |  Cllr.Jo.Slimin@basingstoke.gov.uk

• County Councillor  |  Rhydian Vaughan  |  Rhydian.Vaughan@hants.gov.uk 

• Ranil Jayawardena  |  Conservative NE Hampshire MP  |  email@Ranil.uk (for Tadley and Pamber).

• Dame Maria Miller  |  Basingstoke  |  Maria.Miller.mp@parliament.uk                                 (For Basingstoke and Dean Borough - B and DBC determines our planning policy.)

• Kit Malthouse  |  Conservative NW Hampshire MP  |  Kit.Malthouse.mp@parliament.uk  (for Tadley and Pamber.)

• Laura Farris  |  Newbury MP  |  Laura.Farris.mp@parliament.uk

• Sir Alok Sharma  |  Reading West MP  |  Alok.Sharma.mp@parliament.uk

• Matt Rodda  |  Reading East MP  |  Matt.Rodda.mp@parliament.uk  |  MattRoddampcasework@parliament.uk 

• Rt Hon Conor Burns MP  |  Bournemouth West MP  |  Conor.Burns.mp@parliament.uk

• planning.comments@basingstoke.gov.uk.

• NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board:  Hampshire Fire and Police Headquarters, Leigh Road, Eastleigh. Hampshire.  SO50 9SJ. Email: tsdft.lpae-hiow@nhs.net.

• Admin@cprehampshire.org.uk.