Another week and another consultation for housing locally. This one is called ‘Crookley Park’ or better known as ‘Blendworth Fabrics’ estate. The consultation letter has a simple leaflet (below) and it is not clear if they are proposing to demolish the existing buildings and build on Blendworth Fabrics warehouses, closing the business, or if they are going to try to fit in the 33 new homes the covering letter refers to on the existing land.
It is difficult to see how this might be achieved given the extensive tree coverage without the Arbocultural officer having several litters of kittens due to the sheer mass of tree roots and inevitable damage, but I am sure the consultation will make this clear.
Crookley Park is also an employment site in Horndean, so if the plans result in the loss of this business then this would also be an unwelcome change.
The consultation is to be held at Napier Hall which is on Portsmouth Road and runs between 2:30pm and 7:30pm on Thursday the 10th July
Hopefully the consultation will result in a set of the plans and consultation details online, and this being the case I will post a link so people who can not make the consultation can comment. Please also copy your comments to Cllr Denston whose ward it is in.
Please note that the consultation is on the 10th JULY not 10th JUNE as on their advert below!!!
horndeanmatters 
The image of the Turley leaflet states that the meeting at Napier Hall is 10th June …..assume they mean July??
I was able to give people a “heads-up” to this in the Catherington Village Newsletter which I sent out by email last night.
You have been able to provide us all with more detail – for which many thanks.
We certainly need to keep our wits about us and keep a close eye on this.
Hopefully there will be a substantial turn out on Thursday next week.
Regards
Nigel
If this goes through we can effectively say good-bye to Blendworth which will just become absorbed into Horndean. I see we are also likely to get a solar farm.
Hi Guy, Presumably the consultation takes place on 10 JULY as opposed to 10 JUNE. Many thanks for all your blogs – brilliant communication avenue for local matters. Regards
Thank you Wendy and Richard, Yes, 10th July – I have added some notes on the blog.