Farnborough, Hampshire
Farnborough, Hampshire
Inland have purchased from Defence Estates, the property arm of the Ministry of Defence, the former DERA Centre for Human Sciences site in Farnborough, Hampshire.
The 24.5 acre brownfield site, which is adjacent to Farnborough Airport, has the benefit of an allocation within the Rushmoor Local Plan for a mix of employment and residential development.
An outline planning consent has been granted for 399 residential units and over 100,000 sqft of commercial use development, Inland is now on site with a housing association on the 1st phase of 29 houses which has kick-started this important development. The 2nd phase of 37 private houses has now started, show home now open, for more information please visit www.queensgate-farnborough.com. Inland have also sold 57 serviced plots in the Eastern Phase to a national house builder, they are now also onsite.
A further planning application has since been approved which reduces the amount of commercial buildings on the site to be replaced with an 80 bed nursing home, after it was established that there is a shortage of suitable elderly care facilities in the local area.
The site is home to the UK’s last human centrifuge facility, which is leased to QinetiQ in order to enable the continuation of work on the Typhoon Fighter Jet programme, the state-of-the art aircraft that is set to become the RAF's major front-line type. This facility has been listed by English Heritage, and is currently leased to QuinetiQ PLC.
An application has also been agreed with Rushmoor Borough Council and English Heritage for a revised application for the Grade II listed centrifuge building, to demolish the surplus buildings around the centrifuge and create an additional 50 residential units and convert the centrifuge into a museum. This application will only be implemented once the demand for the human centrifuge has ceased.
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