Plans unveiled to build 111 new homes at former Goodwillies Timber Yard in Waterlooville
The site of a former timberyard is being converted into housing
Plans have been unveiled to build 111 new homes on the site of the former Goodwillies Timber Yard in Waterlooville.
The timber yard closed in April 2024, with the staff at the site made redundant after its owner retired. The company has been a fixture in the town since 1882 with a saw mill being present at the site since 1800.
The developer is seeking permission to create 111 properties of between one and four bedrooms at the now empty site. It has proposed providing 235 parking spaces, including visitor parking, with all homes having access to EV chargers, with cycle and walking routes also created.
In the local plan, the development blueprint for the area, Havant Borough Council has previously earmarked the area as being suitable for around 120 homes.
The planning application said: “The site features many existing buildings, with a considerable number of very large warehouses already sitting on or very close to the boundary. These buildings could be replaced with similar, yet slightly smaller, building to improve conditions for neighbours, but kept in largely the same places to help reference the history of the site.
“The land parcel features several well-traversed existing routes through the site, including a main route north-to south and several secondary east-west routes. The roughly east-west pattern of movement is particularly clear on the western part of the site, where rows of timber and vehicular pathways sit at 90 degrees to the main route and existing large timber sheds. By following these routes with the proposed development, the new development could further reference the site's history.
“At the site's entrance, two grand homes help to turn the corner and entice you into the site. Just beyond, in the place where a metal warehouse once stood, buildings continue the new build line and pull the built form away from the existing neighbours.
“Ahead of you, you are greeted with a view of the new open space, play space, and a link to Brightside to the east. As you turn the corner, following the old route on site, you travel alongside a contemporary village green overlooked by terraces, following a green tree-lined avenue through the site.
“Dark timberstyle boarding is introduced in the architecture along this route to reference the previous timber sheds on site. Another turn down the spine road, and your end-of-vista view is a lush green public open space.
“The tree-lined avenue features buildings reminiscent of the previous timber sheds and timber merchant's buildings, but with footprints that respond more appropriately to the site's residential context.
“The patterns of the cul-de-sacs to the west enforce the routes previously taken by timber merchants on site, providing another link to the site's long history. This layout brings together old and new, celebrating the past, the present, and the future of the site.”
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