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Search the Public Notice PortalFarmland on the edge of a growing housing estate could be the next plot earmarked for new homes under fresh plans.
Andell Developments has applied for “permission in principle” to build nine houses on a field at Gander Cross Farm in Burgate, just north of Fordingbridge.
The 0.63‑hectare site is currently in agricultural use but sits beside existing properties and a housing scheme already under way off the A338.
Planning documents submitted to New Forest District Council said the land is in one of the district’s better‑connected spots, with bus stops on the A338 about 400 metres away and easy links to Fordingbridge, Downton and Salisbury.
The proposed development is described as nine family‑style homes of traditional design, at a “low density” of around 13 dwellings per hectare so as not to “overdevelop” the site.
Andell Developments said the scheme would form a “logical extension to the large Burgate allocation” in the council’s plan for the area.
This plan includes at least 400 homes, plus open space and a community hub with shops and other facilities.
The planning statement from Andell said: “The provision of such a large number of dwellings in the area, as well as additional facilities, indicates the sustainability of the area and that it is suitable to support residential development.”
Listing benefits of the proposal, the property developer said it is a “sustainable location” and supports the “vitality and viability” of the area.
They added: “It would not be an isolated countryside scheme but instead would represent a natural rounding off of residential development in the area.
“There are no major showstoppers that would prevent the delivery of the site.”
The application also highlighted the area’s housing shortfall and said council figures showed only 1.53 years’ worth of deliverable housing land.
The statement from Andell said that national policy should tip the scales towards new housing and that even a nine‑home scheme should “carry significant weight”.
If approved, the bid would not give full planning permission but would mark the site as suitable for a nine‑home housing scheme.
The finer details – from house designs and road layout to parking, landscaping and how extra pollution in local waterways is dealt with – would be decided later through a separate, more detailed application.
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