Opportunity
Winchester is renowned for being one of the best places to live in the UK, and each year over five million people arrive in our city to enjoy its vibrant blend of heritage, culture, retail and food and drink experiences.
The area around Winchester Railway Station serves our city as an important hub, with 8,000 people passing through Station Approach every day. This includes commuting business people, students and school pupils who arrive and leave from this busy city gateway and the increasing numbers of visitors for whom the area is a starting point for exploring the district.
Winchester City Council, working with stakeholders across the city, wants to realise the potential of the area around Station Approach which includes the Carfax and Cattle Market sites. This project has the potential to form part of the council’s vision for a vibrant green economy that makes the best use of key sites to create a sustainable mixed-use development.
We want to support our growing green economy, improve the urban environment and make arriving in and departing from this key transport hub a more welcoming and vibrant experience.
- Gladstone Street car park (108 public spaces), the leased parking next to the former register office, and the leased parking to the south of Hampshire County Council Record Office.
- The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) site currently used as a base for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Army Cadet Force, Minden Company and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Training Corps. This may become a site for consideration if the DIO choose to release this site for redevelopment.
- The decked car park to the North of the Station. Owned by Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (NRIL), operated by South Western Railway (SWR) – comprising of 265 spaces.
- Surface car parking along the western side of the railway line and the decked car park to the West of the Station (owned by NRIL, operated by SWR) totalling 477 parking spaces.
- Cattlemarket car park owned by Winchester City Council comprises of 338 surface car parking spaces over 2 stepped levels (sloping site).
The Station Approach area is allocated for regeneration in Winchester City Council’s current local plan and remains an allocation in the emerging Draft Local Plan.
Recognising that Station Approach can be a truly exciting opportunity for Winchester, Winchester City Council has developed a Concept Masterplan for the area. The first stage of work carried out in 2022 agreed a set of four development principles, which can be found here.
Winchester City Council is committed to ensuring any future development is viable and sustainable – supports low carbon transport and creates a community for the future that never forgets its past.
