5:00pm Monday 8th February 2010
By David Connop Price
REVISED plans for a massive housing, office and retail development on a landmark site in Basingstoke have been submitted.
On the former Eli Lilly and Victoria Lot sites in Kingsclere Road, Lemon Land wants to build 472 homes, 39,750 square metres of office or educational space, 1,110 square metres of shop space, an art gallery and turn the art deco white building into a 150-bed hotel.
The application is for outline planning permission, with access as the only detailed concern to be decided.
Consequently, layout plans are only illustrative, but do suggest blocks of flats up to six storeys high.
It is the second time Lemon Land has submitted a bid to develop the 26 acres.
Mathew Mainwaring, a director of Lemon Land’s agents Indigo Planning, said he was too busy to comment on the latest application before The Gazette went to press.
Norden ward councillor Laura James, who led opposition to the first scheme, said: “It is urban cramming of the worst kind.”
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