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DEVELOPERS wanting to build a massive warehouse site near the M3 have pledged £1.4 million in bus services to the town. Newlands, who are currently awaiting planning permission for Basingstoke Gateway at Oakdown Farm, near Junction 7, have said that they will pay the money to subsidise bus services from the town centre to the site. It will fund bus services between 5am and 7pm for three years, whilst also contributing to a new mass rapid transit system earmarked by both the borough and county council as a future cornerstone of public transport in the town. Newlands’s development director John Barker said: “Our distribution hub has been carefully designed as an integral part of the Council’s SW Basingstoke Gateway Vision.