Council bosses have approved the next quota of homes to be built in the brorough and where they should go.
Basingstoke council’s cabinet made its decision at a rescheduled meeting held to approve elements of the council's housing plan.
Tempers flared as residents tried to persuade the six-member cabinet to rethink where the homes should be built.
Cabinet members justified their decision by arguing that approval of the proposals were needed to go to the next stage of the planning process and stressed that the plans could be amended further down the line.
The council is in the process of drawing up its local development framework (LDF), a housing master plan for the next 16-years.
The document, which needs to be approved by the Government’s planning inspector needs to outline where 9,500 homes will be built.
The quota includes 100 homes on Swing Swang Lane, 480 on Razors Farm, 450 north of Popley Fields, 900 east of Basingstoke, 150 on Redlands and up to 1,050 homes at Basingstoke Golf Course.
At the meeting, 19 people put their case forward, urging councillors to rethink where they should go.
And many argued that Manydown, which was left off the list, should be included.
Campaigners believe that by developing Manydown, which can take up to 8,000 homes, less would be needed on other greenfields, such as east of Basingstoke or Redlands, adjacent to east of Basingstoke.
Alan Read, from Country Watch, said: “Many residents of Popley, Chineham, Lychpit and Old Basing feel that they are being unfairly treated and will take the brunt of further development when other, and possibly more suitable, alternatives exist.”
But Deputy council leader Cllr Clive Sanders hit back saying that statistically significant data drawn from a public consultation highlighted that residents did not want one giant housing area, but favoured a more piecemeal approach.
He said: “What they want to see is dispersed development in a decentralised fashion around the current conurbations.
“Based on that research, there was not a groundswell of opinion favouring one large piece of development to tackle all our housing needs.
“What we are not doing tonight is deciding what sites should go into the LDF. All we are asked to do tonight is to decide which sites should be taken forward for the next stage of evaluation for the potential to go.
“To hold that process up at this stage and say we will do nothing until we go back and look at another site will undoubtedly leave us open the possibility that developers will, when the new national framework comes in, win planning by appeal.”
