Following the council’s decision to update the Local Plan in May 2019, we have commissioned a number of new evidence base studies. These will be published on this page as they become available.
| Key Supporting Documents | Draft Policies Map Booklet (2025)
Draft Policies Map (2025) |
Maps showing the land use designations and allocations relating to the Local Plan Draft Spatial Strategy (Regulation 18). |
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| Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan (2025) | Identifies the infrastructure required to meet the spatial objectives set out in the Local Plan Draft Spatial Strategy. | |
| Integrated Impact Assessment Regulation 18 Local Plan Draft Report (2023)
Integrated Impact Assessment Regulation 18 Local Plan Draft Report Appendices (2023) Integrated Impact Assessment Regulation 18 Local Plan Draft Report Appendix C (2023) integrated Impact Assessment Draft Local Plan (2024-42): Updated Spatial Strategy (2025) Regulation 18 Draft Report Habitats Regulation Assessment (2024) Habitats Regulation Assessment (2025) |
This Integrated Impact Assessment incorporates:
Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment: considers the sustainability effects (social, environmental and economic) anticipated as a result of the implementation of the development options and policies contained in the Regulation 18 Local Plan and Draft Spatial Strategy. This assessment is undertaken alongside the preparation of a Local Plan and is an important tool in making informed decisions that actively address the issue of sustainability. The appraisal process compares, analyses and evaluates different options for the planning of the borough; identifies how to maximise the positive impacts of plan options and minimise the negative impacts. Health Impact Assessment: assesses the main health and wellbeing impact of proposed policies and proposals. Equalities Impact Assessment: helps the Council understand the impact of the Local Plan on equality groups. Habitats Regulations Assessment: assesses the potential impact of the plan on the Natura 2000 network of European protected nature conservation sites. |
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| Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change | Climate Change Topic Paper (2023) | The Topic Paper sets out in detail how the four climate change policies in the Local Plan Update have been developed. The paper draws together relevant national planning policy, legislation and guidance in addition to local evidence to justify the policy approach that has been taken to ensure that the council’s Climate and Ecological Emergency declarations are appropriately addressed. |
| Climate Change Study (2021) | This provides initial evidence on the setting of energy and sustainability standards for new development. It also informs the approach to setting policies for renewable energy development. | |
| Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Net Zero Policy (2023) | This informs and justifies the Local Plan Update’s energy requirements for new homes. | |
| Cost assessment of net zero carbon policy options(2023) | Assessing the build costs of net zero homes. | |
| Delivering the Spatial Strategy | Basingstoke Town Centre Masterplan (2022) | Masterplan setting out a vision and principles to shape the future of the town centre, adopted by the council in 2022. |
| Site Selection Report (including Sequential test for flood risk (2025) | The council has undertaken a detailed site assessment process to consider the suitability of sites for allocation for future development to meet identified needs over the plan period. This report explains the site options that have been considered and outlines why sites have been proposed, or not proposed, for allocation at this stage. It also includes a sequential test assessment for flood risk. | |
| Settlement Study (2025) | Stage 1 of this study considers the relative sustainability of settlements in the borough, enabling them to be placed in a sustainability category. Stage 2 identifies suitable indicative housing requirements for settlements taking account of their sustainability, past delivery, local constraints and site availability to inform the spatial strategy. | |
| Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (2025) | This reviews the availability, suitability and achievability of land for housing and economic development. This is updated annually. It provides a list of sites promoted for either housing or economic land uses. It does not allocate any land for those purposes but provides a list of options for consideration as part of the process of producing the Local Plan. | |
| Basing View Intensification Study (2025) | Considers the potential to accommodate additional employment floorspace and homes at Basing View through intensification. | |
| Basing View Tall Buildings Study (2025) | Considers the suitability of tall buildings at Basing View. | |
| Protecting and Enhancing the Environment | Landscape Character Assessment (2021) | This study identifies and describes the variation in character of the boroughs landscape. |
| Landscape sensitivity study (2021)
Landscape sensitivity study Addendum (2025) |
This assesses the sensitivity of promoted development sites (as identified in the SHELAA) by assessing landscape and visual sensitivity and combining this with an assessment of landscape value to determine a capacity judgement for each site (low to high sensitivity). | |
| Local Green Spaces Technical Paper (2024) | This paper explains the methodology used to assess sites for potential Local Green Space designation. It includes the outcomes of assessments on all of the green spaces promoted to the council, with a concluding list of proposed areas suitable for Local Green Space designation in the Local Plan. | |
| Renewables Study (2024)
Renewables Study Appendix A (2024) |
This study assesses the borough's landscape sensitivity to wind and solar energy development. | |
| Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (2021)
Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (2025) |
This identified flood risk across the borough from all sources, including flooding from rivers and surface water, to inform the 2024 draft Local Plan. | |
| Strategic Gap Technical Paper (2025) | This study provides information on the approach of including a strategic gap policy in the Local Plan, providing the context and rationale for the strategic gap designations in the borough by assessing relevant areas for designation as gaps and defining their extent. | |
| Valued Landscapes Study (2023)
Valued Landscapes Study Figure 1 (2023) |
This study assesses the landscapes of the borough, and considers their potential to be designated as Valued Landscapes, a local designation to safeguard the most valued areas of landscape outside of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape. | |
| Water Cycle Study (2022)
Appendix H: Flood Estimation summaries based on 100 year model Ashford Hill Basingstoke Kingsclere Sherborne St John Sherfield Silchester Washwater Addendum to the Water Cycle Study (2024) |
The Water Cycle Study has been carried out to assess the potential impact of projected growth (Local Plan Update) on water resources in the borough. Planned future development throughout the study area has been assessed with regards to water supply capacity, wastewater capacity and environmental capacity in the water environment. It also helps to ensure that required water infrastructure can be planned for and brought forward alongside new development, in a timely and phased manner.
The addendum to the published Water Cycle Study (2022) provides updates on a number of water-related issues. |
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| Draft Water Cycle Study (2025)
Appendix I: Groundwater study |
This draft Water Cycle Study (2025) provides update on a number of water issues related to the Local Plan draft spatial strategy consulted on in 2025. | |
| Supporting a Thriving Economy | Economic Needs Assessment (2025) | This provides information on the borough’s economic needs in relation to office, industrial and warehouse floorspace. It makes recommendations concerning the level of need, and strategy for meetings those needs, in respect of these sectors. |
| Economic Needs Assessment (2023) | This provided information on the borough’s economic needs in relation to office, industrial and warehouse floorspace, to inform the 2024 draft Local Plan. | |
| Hotels Study (2019) | The study reviews the local hotel market and identifies how demand might change in the future. | |
| Retail and Main Town Centre Uses Study Volume 1 2024 (updated Aug 2025)
Retail and Main Town Centre Uses Study - Appendices Volume 2 (updated April 2025) |
This considers the current vitality and viability of the borough’s shopping centres and identifies the need for future floorspace over the plan period. | |
| Retail and Main Town Centre Uses Study (2020) | This considered the vitality and viability of the borough’s shopping centres and identified the need for future floorspace over the plan period, to inform the 2024 draft Local Plan. | |
| Creating Sustainable Infrastructure-Rich Communities | Leisure and Recreational Needs Assessment Executive Summary (2022)
Leisure and Recreational Needs Assessment Part 1 (2022) Leisure and Recreational Needs Assessment Part 2 Executive Summary (2022) Leisure and Recreational Needs Assessment Part 2 (2022) Leisure and Recreational Needs Assessment Part 3 (2022) |
This provides an evidence base on the council’s need for sports facilities (including built facilities and playing pitches) and community buildings. |
| Preliminary Transport Impacts Review (2025) | This provides an initial forecast of the cumulative transport impacts of the proposed sites, based upon updated strategic transport modelling. This preliminary review identifies a number of areas of interest where more additional transport modelling and more detailed investigation will be required to inform suitable transport mitigations. | |
| Interim Transport Assessment (Regulation 18 (2024) | This interim assessment supported the growth strategy proposed in the 2024 draft Local Plan informed by strategic transport modelling, considering relevant transport implications. | |
| Providing Homes for All | Housing Market Assessment (2020) | This has been prepared to provide information about the borough’s housing needs over the plan period. In line with national guidance and requirements, the study models the size and structure of the borough’s population in 2040 and identifies the size, type and tenure of accommodation that will be required. |
| Affordable Housing Needs Update (2023) | This re-assess the level of affordable housing need recorded in the Housing Market Assessment, taking into account updated information. | |
| Creating High Quality and Distinctive Places | Basingstoke Urban Design Framework(2020) | This provides a high-level contextual survey and analysis of Basingstoke town to help underpin the design policies in the Local Plan. |
| Basingstoke Urban Design Framework(2020) | This document assesses the heritage impacts arising from the allocations in the draft Local Plan. |