The Union Yard development will transform the heart of Aldershot town centre.
Photos of Union Yard
The Union Yard development was recently finished and we opened it officially on Monday 10 March. Union Yard has:
- Polden Studios - 128 student units, students' study and breakout space
- Burton House, a mix of 35 1-bed and 2-bed apartments
- Seacole Place, a mix of 47 1-bed and 2-bed apartments
- Sheldrake House, a mix of 18 1-bed and 2-bed affordable apartments
- 12 flexible commercial and retail units on the ground floor
- Makers’ yard offering smaller creative workshop spaces for small and independent businesses
- New public square linking the High Street and Union Street
Across the whole development, there are 10 wheelchair-accessible apartments and 8 wheelchair accessible studios in the student accommodation.
Eighty-two of the apartments are going to be marketed by a local estate agent for private rent from Rushmoor Homes and 18 will be affordable homes, initially made available to people over the age of 55.
New business and retail opportunities
If you’d like to find out more about taking space in our new Union Yard development, please see our dedicated Union Yard website.
The site offers a variety of spaces to suit all needs, from larger commercial units to smaller creative workshop spaces.
Find out more about the opportunities available and how you can be a part of an exciting new era for Aldershot.
Map showing the different blocks of Union Yard
Time lapse cameras
See Union Yard taking shape over the past few months from our time lapse cameras.
High Street looking at Polden Studios (student accommodation)
From Polden Studios looking down at the rest of Union Yard
About Union Yard
Union Yard is a council regeneration scheme that sees the comprehensive redevelopment of a key area of Aldershot town centre and creates a new, revitalised and vibrant space.
It provides flexible retail, new homes and public space in the heart of the town centre, as well as accommodation for students. Among the features is the makers' yard, with new public square and creative space for small and independent businesses.
We will keep ownership of the student accommodation and commercial units.
Our Development Management Committee gave planning permission in June 2020 to the Rushmoor Development Partnership for the demolition of the existing buildings and the construction of 100 new homes, 128 student units and flexible retail/commercial/business/community space, together with improved public space and car and cycle parking.
In July 2021, our Cabinet formally agreed to proceed with the redevelopment and recommended that the budget be put in place to allow the scheme to press ahead. A full meeting of the council approved the Cabinet's recommendations.
Demolition of the site started in February 2021 and was completed in November 2021.
The development was officially opened on Monday 10 March 2025.
External funding for regeneration
We were successful in securing £5 million of government grant funding from the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) and £1.2m from the Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership to help with development costs.
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