POLICYMAKERS have approved a £400 million capital programme for Winchester over the next ten years to 2031.
The Cabinet at the city council plan to spend the money on bricks and mortar over the next decade.
Among the schemes in the programme are the new sports and leisure centre due to open this spring; tackling the climate emergency and creating a greener district, £17m; housing, £340m, including £239m on building 1,000 affordable homes; creating a vibrant local economy, £36.7m.
Some £500,000 will be spent on demolishing the Friarsgate medical centre and clearing the area for an interim open space before future development in the Silver Hill scheme. Demolition will save on business rates and maintaining the empty building, estimated at £64,000 a year.