Causeway Farm

September 2006	The Local Development Framework will eventually replace Local Plans, and is supported by a commitment to Community Involvement.
April 2005	The Inspector's Report is published showing the potential development of only 12 houses in Petersfield, north of Station Road, as a baseline site. Pennsfield has been relegated to a reserve site, with the addition of new reserve sites at Larcombe Road and Broadway Farm - all ahead of Causeway Farm in the rankings. Indeed the Inspector states, in putting all of these Petersfield sites towards the end of the reserve list that he hopes "that they will never be developed".
October 2003	Objections presented to development at Causeway Farm, and asking for its removal as a reserve site, at the Local Plan Public Inquiry.
July 2002	Phillips Build Ltd. have now withdrawn their appeal against EHDC's refusal of their planning application at Causeway Farm. Unless there is another application this means that the next substantive issue will be the Public Inquiry into the Local Plan during 2003. At this Inquiry we will be strongly arguing for Causeway Farm to be removed as one of the proposed reserve sites.
June 2002	Phillips Build Ltd. have now lodged an appeal against the EHDC decision to refuse their application for 275 dwellings.
May 2002	At a special meeting of the EHDC South Planning Committee on 23rd May the outline application submitted by Phillips Build Ltd. was unanimously rejected, with no abstentions. 284 letters of objection were received, along with many objections from organisations and agencies. A synopsis of these can be seen on the Objections (link) page of this site. Click here to see details of the application, the officer's report and decision on the EHDC web site.
April 2002	Phillips Build Ltd. submit outline planning application for 275 houses.
January 2002	Causeway Farm listed as a reserve site in the Local Plan Second Review second deposit draft. Public Inquiry to be held in Summer 2003. Plan scheduled to be adopted in 2005.
2001	Petersfield AONB is included within draft boundaries for the new South Downs National Park.
1999	13 hectares of Causeway Farm identified for housing in the Local Plan Second Review first deposit draft.
1998	The syndicate makes an agreement with D G Phillips Bosham Ltd (Registered No 02268334) and Phillips Build Ltd. (Registered No 00659053) for a conditional sale of the land subject to the site being identified for housing in the Local Plan, or receiving Planning Permission by January 2010.
1995	At a Public Inquiry the land is rejected for housing development from the First Review of the Local Plan by the Inspector as a "major incursion into the countryside."
1983	27 hectares (68 acres) of land at Causeway Farm purchased by a syndicate of 17 developers. Title HP482265, available at the Portsmouth District Land Registry.