Village Design Statement

Work on a Design Statement for Ellisfield began in May 2001, bringing together residents views through a series of surveys. The resulting document, with its twelve Design Guidelines, was adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council on 12^th December, 2002.

An illustrated copy of the final Design Statement for Ellisfield was delivered to every household in the village at the end of March 2003 and a copy will be provided to new residents, without charge.

Copies are available to non-residents for a charge of £5 (post free).  Please send a cheque and delivery address details to the Clerk, whose address can be found  here.
A "pdf" version of the Design Statement can also be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this page.

Ellisfield, the "Green Village"

For a village community with such a confident sense of its own identity, Ellisfield hardly shows on the maps.

To a geographer it appears as scattered settlements totalling a hundred or so homes, in four or five main groupings, and smaller clusters, quite widely separated by open tracts of farmland.

The reality as perceived by residents is quite different. The open areas, which may seem on the map to divide the village, are actually what give Ellisfield much of its defining green and spacious character.

To the villagers of Ellisfield, the long green stretches of lane between the knots of houses are as much part of their village as the homes they live in. They are the green arteries of the village. In their way, they link it together just as much as the web of family, church, club, society and friendship ties that binds the whole into one living community.

Village Design Statement

This document is available for download here.

Village Design Statement
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, 6.8 MB

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