Basingstoke and Deane

• A thriving, modern town, set in beautiful countryside, with a rich heritage

• 173,860 population 113,600 in Basingstoke and 60,250 in the surrounding area

• 245 square miles, only 8% urban

Charter since 1257

Thomas Burberry

Jane Austen

Highclere Castle

Watership Down

Growth history – 1960sBasingstoke was designated as an expanded town

in1961, when it had a population of 16,000

Growth history – 1970s and 1980s

M3 and ring road

opened in 1971

Business parks and

shopping centre first

phase opened in1971

By 1981 the population was 75,000

Growth history – 1990s

Investment in leisure and culture, including the Anvil (1994)

… plus continuing major housing and commercial development

Growth history – 2000s

2002 Aquadrome opened on

Basingstoke Leisure Park 2002 Festival Place shopping

centre opened

Growth history – 2010s

Bombay Sapphire moved its high-profile

HQ to the borough in 2014

Waitrose and John Lewis at home

largest combined store in the UK

opened in Basing View in 2015

£7m refurbishment of the Malls by

council in 2011

• High quality of life

• 96% resident

satisfaction

• In the Telegraph’s

top 30 property

hotspots

• Great cultural and

leisure facilities

A great place to live

Well connected

Economic hub

• Home to 7,580 companies

• 480,000 highly skilled people within a 60 minute drive time

• 83% economically active

• Dynamic business community - Sony, AXA Wealth, Fujitsu and De La Rue

• One of highest GVAs in South East

• High number of start-ups

• Global number one university business incubator SETSquared’s only off-campus hub here

• Enterprise M3 Growth Town

• 15,300 new homes between

2011 and 2029

mostly around Basingstoke

• 40% of housing to be affordable

• Regeneration of key areas

Local Plan to 2029

Key developments

• Basingstoke Leisure Park –regeneration plans to enhance the leisure offer for residents and visitors

• Invest to Grow – to stimulate development in support of local growth

• Manydown – to deliver much needed housing

• Basing View – major commercial regeneration

• Basingstoke town centre – working with Basingstoke Together business improvement district

Over £30 million in road improvements completed or planned

Infrastructure investment

Long term view

• Past history of significant growth

• Contributed to high quality of life

• Ambitious medium term plans

• Now need to take the same long term view as predecessors

• Significant population of at least 250,000 by 2050

• Relatively high proportion of under 20s (25%)

• Growing number of over 65s

• Ageing infrastructure needing investment

BUT

• Growth opportunities

• Attractive for investment

• Momentum of success

• Partnerships for the future

The challenges ahead

• Shared ambition with residents, businesses and partners for future generations

• Clear vision of where want to be in 2050

• Who will be living here?

• What sort of place do we want it to be?

• How will innovation affect the way we live?

• What are the essential long term ‘building blocks’, for

education and skills, transport, infrastructure and health?

What we need to consider

• January to March 2017 - stage one: data review and analysis

• April to June 2017 – stage two: evaluation of data and start of

engagement

• June to August 2017 - stage three: initial concept

development

Next steps

Next steps

• September to December 2017 - stage four: second stage of

consultation and engagement

• January to March 2018 – stage five: consideration and

adoption

1. Have we missed anything that

we need to take into account or

is there anything to which we

need to give greater

emphasis?

2. Who should be involved and

how?

Two key questions