Yateley & Hawley Town Map 1967

As far as we are aware the first Town Plan for Yateley was the Yateley and Hawley Town Map, produced by Hampshire County Council and approved by the Minister of Housing and Local Government in 1967. This plan was part of the Development Plan for Hampshire produced as a requirement of the Town & Country Planning Act 1962, and covered "the whole of the parish of Yateley, the greater part of the parish of Eversley and parts of the parishes of Hawley, Hartley Wintney and Bramshill within the Hartley Wintney Rural District." Despite this seemingly large area of coverage the plans for new housing development only covered Yateley and Blackwater. The following are extracts from the Plan

The Objects of the Plan

(a) To make provision for the expected natural increase in population, together with some allowance for the further fragmentation of existing households and to provide for limited immigration from other areas;

(b) To secure some measure of integration and rounding off of the existing separate settlements of Yateley and Blackwater/Frogmore, and to permit their development as separate communities;

(c) To preserve an open space between Blackwater and the development area of Farnborough as shown on the Aldershot, Farnborough and Fleet Town Map;

(d) To maintain the existing character of the village of Eversley.

Population and Residential Development

It is estimated that in mid-1960 the civilian population of the Town Map area was 6,900.... It is anticipated that in the period 1690-1981 there will be a natural increase of population of approximately 700 persons. Each area allocated for residential development has been assesed in the light of local conditions and the Plan would accommodate about 4,150 new dwellings. From this assessment it would appear that the Town Map could accommodate an additional 12,000 persons. The Town Map area could, therefore, be approxiately 19,000 persons in 1981.... Accordingly it is intended to develop the major allocations, about 230 acres, at an average net density of not less than 12 dwellings per acre. (unquote)

The Town Map has headings for site allocations; industry; mineral workings; communications including roads, car parks and airports and airfields; social services including education with a site allocation for new schools; business and shopping areas including sites for a new shopping centre (to be "on precinct lines") and two new neighbourhood "shopping centres", and a new allocation for industry. There is finally a section Headed Open Spaces dealing with public open spaces, common land and cemeteries.

The population of the three Yateley Wards (Area 1) is given in 1960 as 3,080 living on 462 acres, rising more tha 3 fold to 10,800 on 737 acres. It is not possible to separate out Frogmore & Darby Green Ward in the Civil Parish of Yateley since it is lumped in with Blackwater as Development Area 2, but that area would also increase by greater than 3 time its 1960 population.

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