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Planning secured for 2,470 homes across two sites
Henry Boot PLC announced that its subsidiary, Hallam Land, secured outline planning permission for a total of 2,470 homes across two sites: 1,270 homes in Tamworth, Staffordshire, and 1,200 homes in Fareham, Hampshire. The Tamworth site includes 30% affordable housing, an extra care facility, community centre, primary school, and sports pitches, with over 10% biodiversity net gain. The Fareham site, granted on appeal, includes 40% affordable housing, a care home, primary school, community centre, and a new country park with a bird reserve. Hallam Land is actively marketing both sites for sale to housebuilders and has active appeals for approximately 1,300 additional residential plots. The company achieved planning consent for approximately 2,500 plots year-to-date, aiming for 10,000 plot submissions this year. Disclaimer*
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nHenry Boot secures outline planning consent for 2,470 homes across two sites in Staffordshire and Hampshire\n \nHenry Boot announces that its land promotion and planning business, Hallam Land, has secured outline planning permission for 1,270 homes in Tamworth, Staffordshire, and a further 1,200 plots granted on appeal in Fareham, Hampshire.\nAt Tamworth, Hallam Land reached an agreement with the landowners to promote the site in 2016. A planning application was first submitted in 2018, with the site receiving an allocation for housing in the North Warwickshire Local Plan in 2021, before Hallam Land secured an outline planning consent in June 2025.\nThe planning consent provides for 1,270 homes of which 30% are affordable, a 100-unit extra care facility, a local community centre alongside a primary school and sports pitches. A Biodiversity Net Gain of over 10% has also been forecast for surrounding habitats. Hallam Land has been marketing the site with the landowner's agents and is now in advanced contract negotiations for sale to a major housebuilder.\nIn 2008, at the site in Fareham, Hallam Land entered into a planning promotion agreement with the landowners for an area that has since become significant for local housing supply. Hallam Land submitted a planning application in July 2020, and the site was allocated in Fareham Borough Council's Local Plan in April 2023, the largest allocation in the Plan.\nFareham Borough Council failed to make a timely decision on the application, which led to Hallam Land appealing in August 2024 based on non-determination. The appeal was subsequently recovered by the Secretary of State in October 2024 and consent was granted in July 2025.\nIn addition to the 1,200 homes, of which 40% are affordable, the consent will deliver an 80 bed care home, a two-form entry primary school, a community centre and a new country park which includes a 10 hectare bird reserve. The scheme provides biodiversity and nitrates credits to release other developments in the local area including, potentially, the Council's Town Centre redevelopment project.\nHallam Land will commence marketing the site for sale this month and expects strong interest in the opportunity.\nHallam Land currently has active appeals on four other sites, totalling around 1,300 residential plots. Hallam has now achieved planning o...