WITH several major housing developments already given planning permission in the parish – and the new Bohunt Manor development unveiled last month – East Hampshire District Council's new leader believes his new cabinet is well placed to deal with the major challenges confronting Liphook.

Plans for a new primary school – controlled by Bohunt's secondary heads – plus a proposed football pitch and housing on Bohunt Manor Frontage Land – are already causing a major split in opinion over how far the village should be allowed to grow.

For full story, see this week's Liphook Herald.