Fareham planning news
Fareham planning news, newest first: applications, appeals and committee decisions, each story linked back to the council file.
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Fareham Park Community Centre Approved, Done by Spring 2028
A centre four times the size of today's was approved on 16 October. Building starts before the end of 2026 and the council now expects it finished by spring 2028.
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Planning
Wickham Park Golf Club Plans: Up to 280 Homes, Say by 4 Nov
Crown Golf's Wickham Park plans show up to 280 homes, flats no higher than three storeys and a rerouted Tanfield Lane. Online feedback closes on 4 November.
Planning
Fareham Planning: Five Objections No Longer Mean Committee
From 31 October, objections and councillor requests stop sending Fareham planning applications to committee. Home extensions can never go there now.
Warsash
Warsash 242 Homes Backed With 38 Affordable, Not 97
Fareham's planning committee backed 242 homes off Brook Lane and Lockswood Road in Warsash with 38 affordable homes, not the 97 policy requires. Here is why.
Planning
Wickham Park Golf Club Homes Plan: Drop-In Held 20 October
Crown Golf plans homes and a public park on part of Wickham Park Golf Club, keeping 12 holes. Its drop-in was held on 20 October, 3.30 to 7.30pm.
Business
Titchfield Festival Theatre: £8.2m HMRC Claim in Collapse
Administrators put the Titchfield theatre charity £7.9m short, driven by an £8.24m HMRC gift aid claim. Its second company was wound up on 20 August.
Planning
Warsash Affordable Homes Dropped for £452,285 Payment
No housing association would buy the five affordable homes at 75 Church Road, Warsash. Councillors are asked on 9 September to take £452,285 instead.
Planning
Fareham Local Plan 2044: Deadline Extended to 23 October
Fareham's Local Plan scoping consultation now runs to Friday 23 October, and the Call for Sites to 31 October. What the council's own evidence shows.
Titchfield
Fareham traveller site refused at 221 Titchfield Road
A retrospective traveller caravan site at Chestnut Paddocks, Titchfield, was refused on 14 August. Fareham's own plan owes three pitches, and the one site it allocated needed an appeal to get permission.
Fareham
Oast and Squire: Fareham pub refurbishment approved
Planning permission and listed building consent were both granted on 14 August for a full refit of the Grade II listed Oast and Squire on Peak Lane, inside and out.
Fareham
Fareham Park Community Centre: Approved 16 October 2026
Approved on 16 October: an 800sqm centre off Henry Cort Drive, built by Neilcott. Work starts before the end of 2026; the council now expects completion by spring 2028.
Titchfield
Lidl Segensworth: store approved, 1,457sqm and 40 jobs
Permission was granted on 30 June for a 1,457sqm Lidl on the old county depot at Segensworth. Signage is approved and six conditions are still to be signed off.