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Location: Fair Oak and Horton Heath, Eastleigh, Hampshire
Client: Eastleigh Borough Council
Value: £80m
Status: Detailed Planning
OHH The Holme and Homestal
ArchitecturePLB has developed a detailed planning proposal for two adjacent parcels of the One Horton Heath development; The Holme and Homestal, part of Eastleigh Borough Council's innovative 2,500-home strategic development. Developed as a Reserved Matters Application following approval of a site-wide outline application, the scheme was submitted to planning 7 months from instruction.
Working with Stantec as project managers, landscape architects and civil engineers, we created a residential neighbourhood that responds sensitively to its semi-rural setting. Our masterplan creates a legible hierarchy of streets and spaces anchored by a generously planted north-south Green Spine providing the main pedestrian and vehicular distribution route.
Our design establishes six distinct character areas that respond to landscape context, green infrastructure requirements and the site's integration with surrounding developments. The Green Fringes of the development form the development's main body with 2-storey houses fronting tree-lined cycle pathways and parking courts. Quobleigh Villas provides larger detached homes with pitched roofs separated by flat roof garages with balconies; these houses front onto a footpath which forms part of a SANG (Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspaces) loop. The Greenway establishes the primary east-west route for cyclists through One Horton Heath, integrated with rainwater gardens and strategic corner-turning houses marking key junctions. Foxwood Road, a key part of the wider infrastructure, creates the southern edge with 4-storey pavilion apartment blocks framing play spaces and linear SUDs basins against the backdrop of existing Fox Wood.
The architectural language employs local red multi-brick with contemporary detailing including parapet gables, projecting brick courses, anthracite window frames and carefully positioned timber cladding. Our parking strategy integrates courts designed as attractive semi-public spaces with through-routes (no dead-ends), central greening, varied surface treatments and strategic planting which terminates views, while houses without on-plot parking benefit from rear garden access gates. The landscape-led approach features informal play using site-won boulders, living willow structures and cut-and-fill play mounds, terraced basin embankments with meadow planting, specimen trees and paths with generous buffers to existing hedgerows. Through iterative pre-application consultation we have refined building positions, reduced apartment block numbers, adjusted parking provision, and developed detailed street sections and junction strategies that deliver a sustainable, cohesive neighbourhood contributing to Eastleigh's infrastructure-first approach to creating connected, biodiverse communities.
Images courtesy of Keyframe Visuals.
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