• A sports hub of district wide significance, including:
  • The retention and modernisation of the existing golf facility (supported by a comprehensive golf needs analysis) to provide an offering better suited to promoting the diversity and inclusivity of golf and encouraging a new generation of participants traditionally excluded from the sport.
  • A new facility for Horsham Hockey Club, comprising two full size pitches and training pitch, alongside changing and classroom facilities. This will enable the club to achieve their goal of becoming a regional talent centre and expand their offering to a wider and more diverse user base.
  • A multi-use pitch suitable for a range of other sports when not in use for Hockey.
  • A permanent home for Warren Clark Golfing Dreams, a charity that works with disabled and disadvantaged groups through sport and who will be able to dramatically increase their impact working from new facilities, alongside our other sporting partners.
  • A new home for The Golf College, an educational facility for sixth form age students who aspire to a career in golf.
  • Collaboration and partnership with Horsham Football Club and the formation of the Hop Oast Sport Committee to maximise the potential that colocation of sport and leisure facilities can realise for the District.
  • A shared clubhouse and F&B facility, serving both leisure participants and the new community.

• 800 new homes, underpinned by a deliverable water neutrality strategy, including a policy compliant number of 280 affordable homes and 5% self and custom build plots. We are also working with Warren Clark Golfing Dreams to establish a template for delivery of accessible housing to complement their work with disadvantaged groups.
• A highly sustainable location, uniquely well connected to existing bus routes served from the Park & Ride, offering frequent and rapid connections to Southwater, Horsham and the train station. The scheme will contribute to further increasing the frequency of the existing bus routes.
• A comprehensive footpath and cycleway strategy, including significant offsite investment, that combined with the frequency of bus routes will significantly reduce reliance on car journeys, both for new residents and users of the new community facilities.

• No material infrastructure improvements required to facilitate delivery of the scheme.
• Onsite convenience store, community and coworking space.
• The main golf course was created in 2015 with significant quantities of inert fill. The sympathetic repurposing of this man made site will reduce pressure to develop valuable agricultural land, open countryside and historic landscapes.
• Significant health and socioeconomic impacts will be delivered by the scheme as evidenced by reports supporting the application, with the scheme design being underpinned by the principles of the Building for a Healthy Life Guide. 105-170 new operational jobs are also projected to be created on site.
• A focus on green technologies and sustainable design and construction features. We are working with market leaders in modular and modern methods of construction.
• A site that is extremely well screened with existing vegetation, ensuring the development will offer little visual intrusion into the surrounding area when completed.
• Provision of an onsite Biodiversity Net Gain of 14.3%.
• Provision of 31.9 hectares of recreational and green space, considerably in excess of policy requirements, and opening up this resource to the wider public. This will include disabled access to purpose-built trails.
• Improvements to the Hop Oast Roundabout, including the introduction of a left turn only lane heading south on Worthing Road.
• Contributions to WSCC plans to facilitate pedestrian, cycle and equestrian crossing points on the A24, improving connectivity through the site, between the Park & Ride and the existing Colstaple Lane – Southwater Street road bridge over the A24 to Southwater.

We are aware of the challenges associated with water neutrality across Sussex. Unlike the majority of other sites being proposed at this time, we benefit from an existing and established water abstraction licence and have agreed the principle of a borehole led strategy with the Environment Agency.  Crucially the aquifer below our site is not connected to aquifers of concern to natural England at Hadham. The proposals for the site will also include a number of technologies and innovations to reduce water consumption and to recharge and recycle water.

Our solution to the issues of water neutrality mean the site is deliverable and can contribute to the delivery of much-needed new homes and facilities in a period where housing delivery is being severely constrained by this issue, helping to strengthen the district housing land supply position.