Hampshire Hills FAQs

Hampshire Hills is the founding Paused.club community – a private, nature-led holiday home setting near Alresford and Winchester, within reach of London. It brings together architecture-led holiday homes, protected quiet, countryside views, wildlife and a considered approach to ownership, creating somewhere designed to be returned to often.

Choosing a holiday or second home within a holiday-designated community like Hampshire Hills is more than a lifestyle upgrade — it’s a meaningful way to support the place you love. By directing leisure-driven demand into a purpose-built retreat, Hampshire Hills protects the homes local families rely on, keeping neighbourhoods intact and ensuring the people who live and work here can continue to do so. This thoughtful model safeguards local housing stock, prevents displacement, and helps keep rents and prices stable. But the impact goes even further. Holiday-home owners bring energy, investment, and life to the area — choosing local cafés for lazy breakfasts, booking treatments with independent therapists, dining in family-run restaurants, exploring farm shops, and supporting the makers, growers, and small businesses that give Hampshire its character. Every visit becomes a contribution to the local economy. Every stay strengthens the community. At Hampshire Hills, owners enjoy the peace, beauty, and freedom of a private nature-led retreat — while the wider area benefits from a model that protects affordability, nurtures local livelihoods, and celebrates responsible, sustainable holiday-home ownership. It’s a place where you can slow down, feel grounded, and know that your presence genuinely helps the community thrive.

Hampshire Hills offers a collection of architecture-led holiday homes, including prepared designs alongside plot-and-plan opportunities. Residences offer one to three bedrooms with owners able to personalise interiors and, depending on the chosen route, create something more individual within the Hampshire Hills design framework.

Yes. Buyers can able to explore different routes, from prepared designs and approved partners to more individual plot-and-plan opportunities. All homes need to follow the Hampshire Hills estate design guidelines, helping to ensure that individual properties feel personal while the wider community remains visually considered and respectful of the landscape.

Yes. Interiors can be shaped around your own style and the way you want to use your holiday home, including the option to work with your own interior designer.

Owners purchase their holiday home outright and receive a 999-year licence to occupy a plot at Hampshire Hills, subject to the terms of the licence agreement. The full legal and ownership documentation will be provided as part of the purchase process.

Yes. Holiday homes at Hampshire Hills are for holiday use and cannot be used as a main residence.

Hampshire Hills is designed to be a place owners can return to regularly throughout the year, subject to the terms of the ownership licence. Full usage details are provided within the ownership documentation.

There is currently an annual levy of £8,000 at Hampshire Hills. Other running costs and optional services may apply depending on the property and the way you choose to use it. A full breakdown of applicable charges will be provided before purchase.

Yes. Family and friends can use your holiday home when you are not present, provided Hampshire Hills is informed of who will be staying and all guests follow the community rules. Owners remain responsible for ensuring their guests respect the standards that protect the peace and experience of the wider community.

Yes. Hampshire Hills is designed as somewhere families can spend meaningful time together, with space to explore, slow down and enjoy the countryside.

Yes. Pets are welcome, subject to the Hampshire Hills community rules and responsible ownership.

Protected quiet is central to the Hampshire Hills experience. Quiet hours currently run from 10pm to 7am, alongside wider community rules designed to prevent disruptive use and protect owners, neighbours and wildlife.

Hampshire Hills is not intended as a party or events destination.The community is designed around considerate use and protected peace, with restrictions on disruptive events and commercial activity.

Managed lettings may be available through Hampshire Hills’ approved lettings arrangement. Private commercial letting is not permitted outside this managed approach, helping Hampshire Hills retain oversight of guests and protect the standards and quiet of the community. Where owners do choose to let, it should be viewed as an opportunity to potentially offset some running costs rather than as a guaranteed investment return.

Yes. Optional concierge and estate services are available to make ownership easier. These include services such as housekeeping, pre-arrival preparation, property care and other practical support, with full service details and pricing provided separately.

No. Hot tubs are not planned at Hampshire Hills, reflecting the community’s wider approach to responsible use of resources and the natural environment.

Hampshire Hills is in the Hampshire countryside near Alresford and Winchester, with access to the South Downs National Park and surrounding villages, countryside and heritage attractions. Its proximity to London is a key part of the ownership experience – close enough to use regularly, while feeling genuinely removed from everyday city life.

The surrounding area offers independent cafés, restaurants, farm shops, markets, vineyards, walking and cycling routes, historic towns and countryside experiences. Winchester, Alresford, the South Downs and the Watercress Line are all within easy reach, giving owners plenty to explore without Hampshire Hills itself needing to feel like a busy resort.

You can explore the available homes, plots and design routes online, or arrange a private viewing to experience Hampshire Hills and discuss which ownership option may suit you best.

Yes. One of the distinctive features of ownership at Hampshire Hills is that the 999-year licence permits owners to replace their holiday home in the future, subject to the terms of the licence and the Hampshire Hills Estate & Design Guidelines.

This gives owners greater long-term flexibility. Homes, materials, technology and the way we live naturally evolve over time, so rather than the value of the licence being tied indefinitely to one particular holiday home, owners have the opportunity to replace it with a new home in the future.

Because Hampshire Hills operates under a planning regime relating to the use of the land for holiday homes, a replacement home that meets the relevant requirements can be sited without the owner having to obtain the type of full planning permission normally associated with demolishing and rebuilding a conventional house.

It means the 999-year licence is genuinely designed for long-term ownership: your holiday home may change over the decades, while your right to enjoy a holiday home at Hampshire Hills can continue for generations.