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Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - paul (30th Oct 2025  13:57:20) Hi, Any idea what the development might be for Liphook facilities? Not just more new property hopefully.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Ian (30th Oct 2025  15:33:01) Restaurant premises, apartments and 2 townhouses to rear. Site had been flipped, possible new application from new owner but unlikely new

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - paul (30th Oct 2025  19:25:48) Hi, Thanks Ian for post. I remember original plans did not take place, because of "complicated ownership" of land to proceed. The now Living Room Cinema took a long time to allow opening.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Joe (30th Oct 2025  21:57:44) Most likely houses the last plans were not acted upon and now the land has been given building permission then the last owners plans do not have to be acted upon.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Ian (31st Oct 2025  06:58:03) If planning permission has been given for houses, get on and get them built and tidy the place up. It looks a bloody mess!

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Joe (31st Oct 2025  11:26:33) From what I can remember the owners of the cinema bought the whole site and gained permission for cinema, restaurant and houses at the same time, they only had the finance for the cinema and I suppose have now decided not to go ahead with the rest of the project themselves so have to sell the land separately. I am guessing the new owners will only put in plans for as many dwellings as they can get there.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - ian (31st Oct 2025  14:02:44) So if the new owners do try to amend the current consent or do indeed put in a new application just for residential property (which will be tricky as there are restrictions that there must be some commercial use to the land and it is also in the conservation area) is that such a bad thing? It will be small scale and the need for housing is immense.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Resident (31st Oct 2025  14:31:56) Ian don’t know about a massive need for housing with the amount of houses for sale in liphook a job to sell them. More going in all over liphook so don’t think there’s much call for more housing in liphook. There IS a massive need for infrastructure ie roads around the square to the A3 more facilities more recreational spaces. The water and waste system is on its knees could go on list too long.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Joe (31st Oct 2025  15:31:34) Not so sure about a commercial restriction there any more, after all Mcarthy and stone had few problems demolishing the old Allianz building to build retirement properties not so far away! There is only space for a few houses anyway.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Ian (31st Oct 2025  15:34:41) Trust me, there is a huge demand for property, especially in the rental sector. Put yourself out there looking for a property to rent, undoubtedly you will be competing against significant numbers of others to secure a decent home.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Ian (31st Oct 2025  15:35:51) Allianz building was not in the Conservation area

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Resident (31st Oct 2025  17:57:06) Well Ian I have seen several houses for sale for months no takers and some were for rent. Don’t think developers are going to build houses for rent anyway as this new legislation has come out for landlords.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Anthony Barr (31st Oct 2025  21:10:15) I, for one, am rather keen to see what comes of it. The site, as you know, went to a blind auction, and I’d put in what I felt was a perfectly reasonable six-figure offer, really just an effort to keep it in local hands. But, as is so often the case with these so-called “transparent” processes, it all felt a touch like a box-ticking exercise. A bit of brown-envelope theatre, if you will, to give the illusion of due diligence. Let’s just hope planning insists it remains in keeping with the area, unlike that dreadful Lego-block monstrosity on London Road.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Richard (31st Oct 2025  21:31:50) Well, if it does become housing I give it less than a week before some eejit driving out of it bangs into a car on the roundabout. Accident blackspot waiting to happen

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Joe (31st Oct 2025  22:04:21) In answer to 2 points - the Coytes yard development is in the conservation area no commercial restrictions market housing built. New houses sell very quickly because developers offer very favourable low deposit low mortgage repayment terms to first time buyers and also offer the 10 year building work guarantee. Also there is no chain so first time buyers have very little waiting time. Trying to sell a house which is not new is entirely different. I cannot think of any new developments locally which have not got nearly full occupancy.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Ian (1st Nov 2025  07:58:28) @Joe. Coytes Yard didn’t front onto London Road and still a commercial frontage so complied with Conservation area planning requirements.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Joe (1st Nov 2025  09:24:50) Ian to back up your claim of planning rules only allowing commercial frontage in the square, could you point me to a link to the relevant page on the EHDC planning policy pages please? Also there are at least 2 properties fronting the square which are domestic ? and Childerstone Close of houses is in the squares conservation area some of which are in the front. One might suggest too, that in the same way as the entrance to the Coytes houses is a narrow private road for cars to exit ( as they cannot exit through a commercial building) the entrance for cars may be, a very similar private road exiting next to the cinema.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Local (1st Nov 2025  10:18:07) It seems that the rules for our conservation area are non existent look at the awful corner shop headley road junction. A sign sticking out from the side all gaudy colours totally out of context with the rest of the square. Again our Parish council and EHDC don’t care.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Ian (1st Nov 2025  12:07:48) Joe, the current planning consent is for commercial premises and residential, which is why it was passed. Go onto EHDC planning portal to get the details. The point I was making and you are missing is that if the new owners of the land try to get planning for exclusively residential then they may have difficulties unless there has been a relaxation of planning policy regarding change of use and development in the conservation area.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - A different M (1st Nov 2025  12:21:15) To be honest I don't think there is a need for any comercial units in Liphook, even a restaurant. As for the conservation area, I don't believe there's any reason to not build residential units there, as long as they are in keeping with the area and adjacent properties. The old Lloyds Bank has a planning application pending to convert it to flats and build two houses on the current car park, and it appears EHDC and HCC see no issues with it. Also Exchange House opposite the station has an application in to convert it to flats, so it's pretty obvious that Liphook has no urgent need for commercial premises like offices and retail. We mustn't forget with EHDC not having a 5 year housing land supply, in fact they are a long way short, then any proposals for new residential devlopment will automatically get rubber stamped, because if EHDC say no then the applicant will go to appeal and win on the dreaded tilted balance rule! You only have to look at the decision for Chiltley Farm to understand that! I think Liphook, along with Bordon, Horndean and Alton, will be inundated over the next couple of years with planning applications for new residential proposals, and EHDC will be unable to refuse any of them. This is purely due to the Labour Governements rediculous new housing targets, and housing needs calculations, and EHDC's complete incompetence in generating a Local Plan!

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Joe (1st Nov 2025  14:03:52) Ian, permitted development now is is that commercial properties can be converted to residential in shopping centres and high streets provided certain conditions are met. This national planning policy would trump any design wishlists- there is no planning policy relating to the square in Liphook that commercial property must front the square. Yes the land has been sold with the benefit of current planning permission on a long lease by the owners of the cinema so any houses built will also have to be on a leasehold basis. The government are trying to overturn the selling of leasehold properties so who knows? I do not think that planning permission was only granted on the whole site in the first place with the proviso of the building of the restaurant at the front? There were a lot of complaints from the adjoining houses - yes houses- to the site due to possible noise and smells from a restaurant next to them, so I doubt the new owners will build a restaurant.

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Paul2 (5th Nov 2025  12:33:24) Probably will become an HMO

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Anon (5th Nov 2025  16:20:44) Paul What a ridiculous comment - are you an agent provocateur ??

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - Corny Janno (6th Nov 2025  17:46:39) Hopefully not another Turkish barber; yet one more has mushroomed in Station road where the cafe used to be (Shankleys I think it was called) We don’t really need an extra barber in Liphook, or …..do we!!!

Re: Land sold under Auction this month next to Liphook Cinema. - AF (7th Nov 2025  08:07:50) A good quality butcher would be nice, but i know it won't happen.

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