My personal aspirations regarding the former magistrates court are for it to converted to a Travelodge hotel. I envisage this being the catalist for the development of a plaza scheme. As a vision, It would be fantastic to see a central area in the town with an up and coming college, The Lights venue, a refurbished leisure centre, a hotel and some form of restaurant provision. I believe this would create a vibrant mixed use area where all people of the town would want to spend time.

Moving to the telephone exchange; this building is quite the eyesore and serves no real purpose other than being a souvenir of the large scale development Andover endured in the 60’s and 70’s. Again this is a prime location for a flagship building for the town. It would be great to see a mixed use office / residential scheme in place of this underused and dated building.

In the Weyhill Road area we have a strong local centre around the junction with The Drove, and the Portway Gardens area. It would be great to see the Haydon cars site used for the development of a similar local centre for residents in the Salisbury Road area.

I am sorry to say it but save for the ground floor, I would demolish Chantry House. It is an ugly, constrained and massively underused building that does nothing for the town centre at all. The vast majority of the building has been marketed for nearly two decades with no takers, and with little prospect of ever being brought in to use in a residential, retail or office capacity.

As for the former Southgate site; I think it would be great to use this site for out of town retail warehousing of which we arguably need much more of.