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You are here: Home / About Waterlooville / Have Wellington Way Shops met their Waterloo? Plans demolish part of Waterlooville Precinct

Have Wellington Way Shops met their Waterloo? Plans demolish part of Waterlooville Precinct

Thursday 16th July 2015 by Steve Mayne

The landlord of Wellington Way plans to knockdown and redevelop the Wellington Way shops. Business owners in Wellington Way are not being allowed to renew their leases into 2016.

Wellington Way Waterlooville Closing

The landlord wishes to redevelop Wellington Way to provide a mix commercial space and housing. One such design is available to view on the Ayre Chamerlain Gaunt (ACG) website. The design from ACG would give 2000m2 of retail space and 100+ new residential flats/houses.

Businesses at risk in Wellington Way include:

  • The Post Office
  • Iceland
  • Scrivens
  • Waterlooville Sewing Center
  • M&Co.
  • … as well as the other shops in this precinct

According to the redevelopment design from ACG, other shops in the main Waterlooville Precinct may be at risk, these include:

  • Game
  • PamPurredPets
  • Timpsons
  • … as well as the other shops between NatWest and Store Twenty One

Shops in Wellington Way are beginning to move their premises. ASAP Cat Rescue is in progress of moving from Wellington Way to The Boulevard.

ASAP Cat Rescue Waterlooville
New home for ASAP Cat Rescue Waterlooville

ASAP Cat Rescue moving

Some shops will not be able to move from Wellington Way. Either the shop owners lack the money to secure and refurbish alternative premises, or the shops owner will chose to retire rather than start again.

So what can be done? Probably very little.

Some thoughts on possible scenarios,

  1. Buy the land from the landlord: At a guess, 5 to 10 million pounds will be required. This money would need to be found privately.
  2. Ask Havant Borough Council (HBC) to deny Planning Permission: If denied, the landlord would appeal, and if that appeal was upheld the landlord may just let the closed Wellington Way fall into disrepair.
  3. Ask the landlord to ask for extra time, an early exit, or lease reduction to fund a move of premises.

At this time, no planning permission has been submitted to redevelop the site, in the immediate future, the shops will remain open. Please continue to support them.

Last week we attended a meeting with local businesses and George Hollingbery MP to address this and other issues impacting Waterlooville Precinct. You can find the details of this meeting on our other website, The Waterlooville & Region Business Forum (all local businesses are invited to join, it is free).

The only certainty is that Waterlooville Precinct as we know it is coming to an end.

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Comments

  1. Barbara George says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    The town centre does not need housing and commercial premises. It needs to be a vibrant shopping precinct where people go to shop. If planning permission is granted it will be a travesty

  2. Leanne Kirsty says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    Debbie Jane

  3. Josh Rigelsford says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    Ashlea Walters

  4. Deborah Rose says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    That’s going to kill waterlooville we need more shops. Maybe the landlord should think on lower the rents and encourage more business owners to come to the town.

  5. Samantha Draycott says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    Think you’re right Deborah. Not a good idea to re-develop at this time. Landlord needs to stop charging extortionate rents!

  6. Graham Wilkinson says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    I’m looking forward to fighting for a car parking space in waterlooville after an extra 100-200 cars will need space to park for the new residence!

  7. About Waterlooville says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    Hi Deborah, I don’t disagree with you. Apparently there is more money to be made in housing than getting rent from individual small retailers …

  8. Samantha Draycott says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    Tracey Preston, Lottie Palmer, Laura Palmer

  9. Chantelle Noakes says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    Sue Osgood

  10. Lorna Hatherley says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    Sara Cullimore Jeram

  11. Tracy Walton says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 10:39

    really

  12. Anne Tiller says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    This is so sad . We need the shops .

  13. David Nettleship says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Nikki

  14. Jo Richards says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Unfortunately housing is where the money is and maybe charging these ridiculous rents was in the long term plan anyway?!! No shops, no shoppers, no viable business, Mr Planning, he say Yes! Gets what you want in the long run!!! Sneaky.

  15. Dan Cleeve says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Bloody hell. Major cull. Place won’t be recognisable if they go ahead. Ricky Palmer.

  16. Gary Winser says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Well this certainly appears to be the demise of shopping in Waterlooville. The writing has been on the wall for some time as there are so many vacant units or otherwise charity shops. Quite clearly, as someone has already stated, it is the cost of the rent for these poor shop owners. I feel really sorry for them….it’s all about greedy landlords. Do we really need more housing in Waterlooville as we have two great big estates being built towards Purbrook etc? With all these estates being built locally, we need people to shop in Waterlooville, we need good shops in the town centre, so that people don’t have the need to go into Portsmouth, Chichester or Southampton to shop. What next…the weekly market to go?

  17. Carla Stanton says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    What a shame :(

  18. Laura Tomlinson says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    We need more shops make it more like fareham! So much new housing in the area shops like river island or restaurant chains would make a killing is they came to waterlooville

  19. Laura Palmer says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Lottie Palmer
    Tracey Preston

  20. Tony Liddell says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Potentially it could be good and help rejuvenate the town centre. There will still be a lot of commercial space in the new plan and Wellington Way is hardly an architectural gem in it’s current state

  21. Jo Casselden says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    We need more shops not ones taken away and more apartments added we have plenty of houses being built already

  22. Robert Bundell says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Michelle Vickers

  23. Katherine Aitken says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    So what on earth was achieved at the meeting with the mp??????

  24. Tracy Walton says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    what about icelands????

  25. Bethany Christelle Hannah Allen says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Leah Miller

  26. Lynzi Darcy says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Mark Darcy

  27. Tracey Preston says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    This is brilliant , defiantly for upstairs downstairs we will have some choices now new shop here we come

  28. Tony Liddell says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Will this be an actual reduction in retail space? 2,000 m2 is still quite a lot, most of the small units in Wellington Way are about 70m2

  29. Danni Fowler says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Linda Flood

  30. Kim Wilkinson Styles says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Won’t achieve much with George Hollingberry unless it benefits conservatives !!

    • Stu says

      Monday 20th July 2015 at 20:05

      …or farmers

  31. Diana Cross says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Didnt we.suspect this????

  32. Rachel Palmer says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Lisa Benton Justine Elgar Lydia Marie Brown Kirsty Taylor we knew this was coming 😞

  33. About Waterlooville says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 11:39

    Hi Katherine – I’ve put a link below in this comment which has the minutes of the meeting and the outcomes. The minutes describe what the MP can, and cannot do.

  34. Deborah Rose says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    What about the older generation they’re just going to build a new flats on the roundabout in waterlooville. Where are they going to shop. Maybe the developers should think about the other end of town. It was funny I was reading a piece that was in the coffee shop saying how they built a light railway from cosham to horndean to encourage people to visit waterlooville. It’s a great shame I have lived here for fifty years so I have seen changes but this if it goes ahead will kill the town.

  35. Cat Uren says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    James Uren Clive Uren lol just bulldoze the whole of waterlooville

  36. Kelly Tice says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    So sad….

  37. Darron Unsworth-Brown says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    Wots the point. The place is half empty now and full of charity shops. Why not just refurb whats already there.

  38. Darron Unsworth-Brown says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    Sharon M Brown Sue Unsworth

  39. Sarah Kendell says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    Disgusting.

  40. Lisa Benton says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    We knew this was going to happen

  41. Steven Cox says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    Sounds like a good idea to me

  42. Gen Connatty says

    Thursday 16th July 2015 at 12:39

    the building work is going to have a negative effect on whats left of the town centre. dust noise etc. i suppose its new work for builders if the jobs are contracted locally