COUNCILLORS on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s Manydown overview committee will be asked to consider three options to increase the number of homes built on the development on Monday.

As previously reported by The Gazette, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council submitted their draft Local Plan, which will guide where new homes are built across the borough up to 2029, in October 2014.

The borough council’s decision-making Cabinet rubberstamped plans to increase the annual number of homes built across Basingstoke and Deane from 748 to 853 at a meeting on January 27.

The increase in new homes built each year came after Government planning inspector Mike Fox, who will decide if the planning blueprint is adopted, expressed concern over the annual figure claiming that the borough would need to provide more homes because of an upturn in the economic market.

Work is currently being undertaken by officers at the borough council to see which planned developments could take the additional homes over the 15 year period.

Councillors on the Manydown overview committee will be asked to consider three options for additional homes on the planned Manydown development.

The three options are:

• Increase the density of the planned neighbourhood areas to accommodate an extra 150 homes across 10 years

• Provide an additional 350 homes over 10 years by fully developing a plot of Manydown bordering Pack Lane and Buckskin, subject to improvements to the Fiveways junction

• Provide an additional 250 homes during the last five years of the plan period by extending a plot of Manydown bordering Pack Lane and Buckskin, subject to improvements to the Fiveways junction.

The borough council’s Cabinet member for property, finance and commissioning, Councillor John Izett, said: “As joint owner of Manydown, our aim is to make the best use of the land to create a well thought out, attractive and sustainable development of new homes, businesses and community facilities that will benefit the whole borough.

“The northern half of the 2,000-acre site contains the majority of the 3,400 new homes currently proposed in the draft Local Plan up to 2029.

“In line with that long-term vision, we are looking into ways more homes could be provided including the potential addition of more homes just south of the railway line to contribute towards the higher annual figure now being considered for the Local Plan.”

The borough council’s Manydown executive committee will then consider the comments made by the overview committee at a meeting on February 17.