Damian Hinds has welcomed East Hampshire District Council’s planning committee’s approval of the Homes and Communities Agency’s outline planning application for 3 hectares of employment space as well as new and affordable homes at the former Ministry of Defence Louisburg Barracks site.
The decision supports ambitions to build a new construction skills training centre as part of the development, which aims to help create around 500 jobs in total, and a new relief road will aim to improve access to the site and ease congestion around the town.
Damian Hinds said:
“Bordon will miss the Army when it leaves - it has been a central part of the town for so long. It is quite right that stimulating new employment in the town is given the highest level of importance. Of course more people means more demand and there will be retail sector opportunities for example and more public sector jobs too. But other new employers are also very important and having the appropriate commercial space as well as the residential will be key. Bordon's biggest asset is now and will continue to be the people of the town and I greatly welcome the significant investment in the construction skills training centre. In East Hampshire we have been fortunate to see unemployment fall quite sharply over the last few years, in no small part due to the efforts and resilience of local businesses and their employees. I’m sure that that entrepreneurial spirit will continue in Bordon as it moves into the future.”