Work to complete One Horton Heath link road starts

Work begins on the £11.7m major new link road through the One Horton Heath development

Luddon Construction will construct the remaining one-mile route section between Burnetts Lane roundabout to the south and Allington Lane roundabout to the north that will provide an important travel connection between Hedge End and Fair Oak.

Construction of the link road is planned to commence in early summer and is due for completion in Summer 2024.

The scheme will also provide:

• the closure of Fir Tree Lane at the Allington Lane junction to through traffic

• shared footway and cycle routes

• three road bridges and two footbridges

• new bus facilitiesconstructed ahead of a new future local bus service

• safe crossing points along the 30mph road

• extensive landscaping to include native rich species

Go ahead for first homes

Pre-construction work on the first ‘parcel’ of residential homes at One Horton Heath is underway for 381 homes at Lower Acre. These will include a mix of one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom homes of which 35 percent of the properties will be affordable homes. The new homes have been designed to be more than 10 percent larger than the government’s size standards.

Council Leader, Cllr Keith House, said: “It is great to see this vitally significant scheme for Horton Heath get under way. This project is further evidence of the Council’s ‘Infrastructure First’ approach. We are ensuring this new road infrastructure is in place first to help take traffic away from rural Burnetts Lane and remove some through traffic in both Fair Oak and Horton Heath.”

Find out more and keep up-to-date on the development visit: onehortonheath.co.uk or email: onehortonheath@eastleigh.gov.uk

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The scheme is the first of nine residential areas planned for the development which will eventually provide a total of 2,500 homes, a local community centre, primary school and sports field, three new commercial hubs and a host of connected spaces and habitat-rich areas.

The start of the scheme also includes the first steps for the Council’s development of the ambitious ground source heat pump project to provide heating for the residential and commercial properties and a ‘private wire’ network to provide electricity for electric vehicle charging points across the site. The community will be served by a range of sustainable transport links, including pedestrian priority footways and cycleways, a new bus service route and car-club allowing drivers to hire an electric car without being tied to ownership.

Main building is planned to start in Autumn 2023 with the first completions expected in late Summer 2024. Ahead of any new homes being occupied the final phase of the all-important link road will be completed through the development.