If this happened the council may have a Local Plan imposed on it. Eastleigh Borough Council have announced that Eastleigh's long-awaited Local Plan is 'on target' for public examination by the Independent Planning Inspector later this year. As previously reported the Planning Inspectorate turned down plans for 5,200 homes near ancient woodland between Bishopstoke and Fair Oak within Eastleigh Borough Council’ s Local Plan. ADD UPDATE, 21 April 2020: We recently reported that Eastleigh Borough Council (EBC) intends to press ahead with Options B and C – the monster developments north of Fair Oak and Bishopstoke rejected by the planning inspector – once the current Local Plan is formally approved. The Hampshire County Structure Plan policies are to be saved until the South East Plan is adopted (expected 2008). Eastleigh’s MP Paul Holmes has already written to the council criticising the press release and calling on the council to withdraw the local plan – views that were also endorsed by Steve Brine the MP for Winchester and Chandler’s Ford. Holmes said: ‘Cllr House has used social media and the council’s press office to issue misleading information to the public about Eastleigh’s housing plan. 2.4 Eastleigh Borough Council Community Plan The Eastleigh Borough Community A BOROUGH council has been slammed over its local plan after facing dozens of objections. At the same time we promised to provide our own considered assessment of what might happen next, once … Eastleigh has been without an adopted Local Plan since 2011 thanks to failure by the Lib Dems. We want to improve transparency and to challenge the Council to do more to consult properly with residents. Eastleigh’s plan, if approved, will determine the location, numbers and types of development in the Borough until 2036. Local councils should not be dominated by one single political party. Soon after posting the Inspector’s letter on the council website the Local Plan was under fire from Local MPs Paul Holmes and Steve Brine. Eastleigh Borough Council’s actions regarding its Local Plan highlighted to us that decisions about our area were not being taken based on evidence. The Government has warned Eastleigh Borough Council that it might step in and take over responsibility for its housing plans if it fails to make progress in producing a Local Plan. Eastleigh News has invited the Borough council to respond to the criticism of the press release. The Local Plan Review Policies were adopted in May 2006 and are saved until 2009 when the Local Development Framework will begin to replace them. Without a plan in place it is difficult for the authority to resist ‘hostile’ planning applications that the council or residents might otherwise deem as unsuitable. Paul Holmes, Conservative MP for Eastleigh has challenged Eastleigh Borough Council Leader for misleading the public on Eastleigh’s draft local plan. As previously reported the Planning Inspectorate turned down plans for 5,200 homes near ancient woodland between Bishopstoke and Fair Oak within Eastleigh Borough Council’ s Local Plan. The much more important news from this Full Council meeting, which Cllr House was very happy to talk about, was that the Borough Council have agreed to re-start the process of developing the local plan, after the Planning Inspector refused to accept the version that was submitted to …