A CAMPAIGNER has said it would be "devastating" if proposals that would see warehouses built on countryside near Hook go ahead.

David Turver, from Hartley Wintney, set up the We Heart Hart website in 2014 in a bid to get Hart District Council to reduce its proposed housing figure and to stop plans to build a new town in Winchfield.

David has now taken to his website to oppose proposals that would see warehouses built on land near Junction 5 of the M3 motorway, which have received hundreds of objections on the Hart Disctrict Council website.

As previously reported Obsidian Strategic is currently planning to sought planning permission for 105,000 m2 of commercial logistics floorspace across five warehouses.

Although a planning application is yet to be submitted, documents relating to an early pre-application meeting have been made available.

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The plans would see the distribution centre built on Lodge Farm located between Odiham and Hook.

He said: “Generally speaking I have been opposed to greenfield developments and pushing brownfields developments but the council still has not got behind that as a message.

“On Lodge Farm it is not for housing but it is for five massive distribution centres on what is currently productive farmland.”

On his website, he states he is objecting to the proposals for several reasons including the groundwater flood risk, the ecological damage and the affect on the surrounding roads.

He said at “least three-quarters of the site would be at risk of groundwater flooding” and no amount of drainage systems “will alter that”.

He added: “There are dormice, otters and rare breeds of bats and all sorts of other things nearby and such a big industrial development is bound to affect their habitat and essentially discourage wildlife."

Mr Turver said it will be “devastating” for villagers who live nearby to see their countryside destroyed.

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He added: “We are all becoming more concerned with food production and currently those fields produced potatoes, sweetcorn or salad leaves and I don’t think we should be concreting over productive fields when we are in the middle of a global food crises."

Despite objections, Obsidian Strategic said it would make a "significant" improvement to the A287 “by enabling access and the free flow of traffic, as well as improved footways, pedestrian crossings, and cycle and pedestrian routes between Odiham and Hook".

To see the full objections, visit: wehearthart.co.uk.

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