Residents who have lived here a long time will remember our campaign of opposition to the Football Stadium at Stoneham. More recently the battle was lost to keep the land lying within the city boundary on either side of Stoneham Lane as Strategic Gap.
The land in the Strategic Gap between Southampton and Eastleigh now faces its greatest threat. The draft Eastleigh Local Plan 2011-2029 contains plans for a 1300 dwellings development. This would start in the fields just after North Stoneham Church and affect all the sports fields on that side of Stoneham Lane and south of Chestnut Avenue. The draft plan will go to a public enquiry in 2013, so its not too late to make your views known.