The Village at Buxton Farm

Thirty-four detached rental homes on a private drive off Route 121, split 17 one-bedroom and 17 two-bedroom. The town’s own paperwork calls them single-family detached fair-market rental units, which is an unusual product for Chester and part of why this one has taken so long in front of the board.

The August 26 hearing brought a new issue into the record. A DES soil-testing report identified PFAS on the site, the town engineer and the board asked for more review of it, and the developer agreed to write soil-handling best-management practices into the construction documents. The board continued the hearing to September 9. The DES report itself was not posted in the municipal record I could access.

How we got here

• Filed as 34 detached fair-market rental homes, 17 one-bedroom and 17 two-bedroom
• Public hearing continued from August 5
• August 26, 2026: DES soil testing disclosing PFAS entered the record; town engineer and board requested further review
• Developer agreed to add soil-handling best-management practices to construction documents
• Continued to September 9, 2026 before the Planning Board

Still a proposal. The PFAS question is now part of the review, and nothing about it has been decided.

Heritage Woods

An open-space subdivision concept for 100 homes: 32 fee-simple single-family lots, 50 duplex condominium units, and 18 detached condominium units, phased in three stages. In a town of roughly 5,000 people, a single 100-home concept is the largest thing on Chester’s pending-project page.

The concept materials ask for a phased master-approval structure and a partial waiver of the town’s road test-pit spacing requirement. What I could not find is a formal application acceptance, a hearing date, or a staff review. This is on the tracker because it exists in the town’s own pending-project materials, not because it has started moving.

How we got here

• Conceptual master plan posted in Chester’s pending subdivisions and site plans materials
• 32 fee-simple lots, 50 duplex condominium units, 18 detached condominium units
• Concept seeks phased master approval and a partial road test-pit spacing waiver
• No formal filing, hearing date, or staff review found as of August 31, 2026

Conceptual. Worth watching precisely because of the size, but nothing has been filed formally that I can verify.

5 Brentwood Drive condominium redevelopment

Eight single-family condominium homes on Brentwood Drive. The application bundles a lot-line adjustment, a minor subdivision, a site plan, a new roadway, utilities and drainage into one package.

The continued hearing was held August 27. As of August 31 the packet and meeting video are still posted but no minutes, decision, or project-specific next hearing had gone up. That is why there is no status label on this card.

How we got here

• Official legal notice set a continued Planning Board hearing for August 27, 2026
• Application covers lot-line adjustment, minor subdivision, site plan, new roadway, utilities and drainage
• August 27 hearing occurred; packet and video posted
• No minutes, decision, or next hearing posted as of August 31, 2026

Not approved, not denied, not continued as far as the public record shows. I will update this as soon as Exeter posts the outcome.

Phillips Exeter Academy faculty housing

Three duplexes, six units total, built by the Academy as faculty housing. Small by unit count, but institutional housing is a category most trackers skip and it still adds six households to Exeter.

Same situation as Brentwood Drive: the continued hearing happened August 27, the packet and video are posted, and no minutes or decision had gone up as of August 31.

How we got here

• Official legal notice set a continued Planning Board hearing for August 27, 2026
• Three duplexes for faculty housing, six dwelling units
• August 27 hearing occurred; packet and video posted
• No minutes, decision, or next hearing posted as of August 31, 2026

Awaiting the posted outcome before any status goes on this one.

Fairway Green

Fourteen single-family lots on an open-space subdivision plan at 58 Jady Hill Avenue. The plan went before the Planning Board on September 10. Minutes and a disposition are not yet posted.

Town and peer review have flagged a substantial list of technical items: inaccurate prime-wetland mapping, a missing wetland scientist report and shoreland conditional use permit, sewer route and maintenance access, unresolved drainage capacity on Webster Avenue, sidewalk and road detail revisions, missing HOA documents, and easement questions. The next verified date is a Conservation Commission hearing on October 13.

How we got here

• Sept 10, 2026: Planning Board hearing; minutes and disposition not posted
• Town and peer review comments outstanding on wetlands, drainage, sewer, and HOA documents
• Oct 13, 2026: Conservation Commission hearing

Under review, with an open list of technical items and a Conservation Commission date in October.

Hampstead Heights

Seventy-two age-restricted condominium units in 2-, 3- and 4-unit buildings, served by public water, three septic systems and a private internal road network with a 10-foot emergency-access connection.

This one needs a careful reading. On March 2, 2026 the Planning Board denied a waiver from the town’s 1,200-foot maximum length for a way with a single entrance. It denied the waiver. It did not deny the application. Those are different things and the difference decides whether this project is dead or just redesigning. Official review has also identified state subdivision, alteration-of-terrain and construction approvals as outstanding.

What I could not verify is whether a redesign has been filed or when this is next in front of the board.

How we got here

• 72 age-restricted condominium units proposed off Stony Ridge Road
• Public water, three septic systems, private internal roads, 10-foot emergency access connection
• March 2, 2026: Planning Board denied a waiver from the 1,200-foot single-entrance road length limit
• The application itself was not denied
• State subdivision, alteration-of-terrain and construction approvals identified as outstanding
• Redesign and next hearing not verified as of August 31, 2026

Alive as far as the record shows, and stalled on a road-geometry waiver rather than on the housing itself.

70 Danville Road subdivision

A residential subdivision at 70 Danville Road that reached the August 3 Planning Board agenda after a June 3 lot-area variance hearing.

I am listing this thin on purpose. The agenda verifies that a subdivision was filed. It does not give the lot count, the applicant, the owner, or what the board did on August 3, and Hampstead’s Planning Board archive still ends at that August 3 agenda. Rather than guess at a number, the number stays blank.

How we got here

• June 3, 2026: lot-area variance hearing
• August 3, 2026: subdivision appears on the Planning Board agenda
• Lot count, applicant, owner and August 3 disposition not found in the posted record
• No Planning Board posting newer than August 3 as of August 31, 2026

On the tracker as a confirmed filing with unconfirmed details. It gets filled in when Hampstead posts the plan and the minutes.

The Meadows at 207 Central Street

A 116-apartment proposal on 26.12 acres at 207 Central Street. Three of the four buildings would be residential and the fourth would combine residential and commercial space. Town materials also describe 278 parking spaces, new access, drainage, utilities, landscaping, lighting, and public water and sewer. The site sits in Business and General-1 zoning.

Official review material identifies wetland-buffer conditional-use review, flood-zone conditions, town water and sewer, and peer-review comments as open items. Those are review comments in the municipal record, not decisions.

The Planning Board hearing was held August 26. As of August 31 no minutes, decision, or project-specific next hearing had posted, which is why this card carries no status label. The Meadows should not be described as approved, continued, denied, permitted or under construction until Hudson posts the record.

How we got here

• 116 apartments proposed on 26.12 acres in Business and General-1 zoning
• Three residential buildings plus one mixed-use building, 278 parking spaces
• Public water and sewer proposed
• Open review items: wetland-buffer conditional use, flood-zone conditions, utilities, peer-review comments
• August 26, 2026 Planning Board hearing held; staff report and plan set posted
• No minutes, decision or next hearing posted as of August 31, 2026

The largest single proposal on this page right now, and the one whose current status is least settled in the public record.

Liberty Common

Up to 140 condominium homes across roughly 85 acres at Route 125 and Depot Road, using duplex, townhouse, quadplex and multifamily-flat building types. The filing describes private wells and subsurface disposal rather than municipal utilities, about 11,300 feet of internal roads, and primary access from Depot Road. The land sits across C-I, Aquifer Protection and Wetlands Conservation districts.

The timeline needs precise wording. On May 5 the Planning Board granted the conditional-use permit and the waiver requests. Those are real, verified decisions. They are not approval of the subdivision or the site plan, and the hearing on those remained continued through August 18. The August 18 disposition had not posted as of August 31, and Liberty Common was not on the September 1 agenda.

State and state-agency items remain identified in the filing: NHDES alteration-of-terrain, wetland, subdivision and septic matters, plus an NHDOT driveway permit.

How we got here

• Up to 140 condominium homes proposed across roughly 85 acres and four parcels
• Private wells and subsurface disposal, about 11,300 feet of internal roads, access from Depot Road
• May 5, 2026: Planning Board granted the conditional-use permit and the waiver requests
• Subdivision and site-plan hearing remained continued through August 18, 2026
• August 18 disposition not posted as of August 31; project not listed on the September 1 agenda
• NHDES and NHDOT permit matters identified in the filing

Partly decided, not approved. The conditional-use permit is done. The project is not.

Colby Farm

Litchfield’s first project under its mixed-use village provisions, putting townhouses, retail, and a daycare on one site along Route 3A. Zoning would allow up to 101 units at this density; the applicant is asking for 86.

How we got here

• Application accepted as complete by a 6-0 vote, April 7, 2026 — accepted, not approved
• Staff review flagged a missing fiscal impact study, no phasing plan, and open space below the town’s requirement
• Not on the July 21 or August 4 Planning Board agenda
• No hearing currently scheduled — staff recommended continuing to a date certain

This one’s gone quiet since April. That’s worth knowing if you’ve been wondering whether it’s still alive: as of now, it is, it just hasn’t been back in front of the board.

196 & 198 Rockingham Road

This one’s on the current S&S Metal Recycling property on Rockingham Road. The plan has shifted since it first surfaced as a concept, now proposing three buildings of 20 units each instead of one larger building, still in Londonderry’s Commercial II district.

How we got here

• First appeared as a conceptual review
• Design evolved to three 20-unit buildings in a courtyard layout
• Planning Board continued the application pending a third-party environmental study
• A conditional use permit and a use exception for residential in a commercial zone are still outstanding
• June 3, 2026: formal public hearing held
• Not on the August 12 or September 2 Planning Board agendas; no next hearing posted as of August 31, 2026

Still under review. Not approved, not conditionally approved.

225 Rockingham Road

A short way down the same road from the S&S site, a separate proposal for 40 residential units is moving through its own review. Put together with 196/198 Rockingham, that’s 100 potential new homes along one stretch of Route 28.

How we got here

• Continued across multiple 2026 hearings (Feb 4, Mar 11, Apr 8)
• Still in formal site plan review as of May 13, 2026
• Planning Board review documented through April 8, 2026
• Not on the August 12 or September 2 Planning Board agendas; no next hearing posted as of August 31, 2026

Not approved. I’m watching both Rockingham Road sites together since they’ll shape the same stretch of road.

NeighborWorks Orange and Pearl housing

A 137-unit project in the Central Business District: 125 apartments plus 12 townhouses, brought forward by the City of Manchester together with NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire, with Built Form Architecture appearing for both.

Secondary reporting describes construction activity on the site, but no primary municipal record confirming a construction status was found, so no status is stated here.

How we got here

• 137 residential units: 125 apartments and 12 townhouses
• City of Manchester and NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire, Built Form Architecture appearing
• Housing construction underway
• Parking-deck architectural compliance hearing continued from August 20 to September 3, 2026

The homes are being built. The open item is the parking deck’s architectural compliance.

275 Jewett Street school conversion

A former school converted into 36 affordable apartments. Adaptive reuse of an existing building, which is the category New Hampshire’s 2026 housing legislation went out of its way to make easier.

The September 3 Planning Board item is an impact-fee waiver and its public hearing. The agenda recommendation is that the waiver application is complete. Fuss and O’Neill appears for the City and for York Hallsville Building, LLC; ownership was not explicit in the agenda I could access.

How we got here

• 36 affordable apartments proposed in an adaptive reuse of the former school
• Impact-fee waiver and public hearing placed on the September 3, 2026 Planning Board agenda
• Agenda recommends that the waiver application is complete
• Fuss and O’Neill appearing for the City and York Hallsville Building, LLC

Scheduled, not decided. The September 3 item is the fee waiver, not the building.

Wellington Road subdivision

Thirty-four new buildable lots on Wellington Road, brought by Manchester Water Works on City-owned land in the R-1A district. The agenda identifies new public roads and a wetland crossing, and places the site within the Lake Massabesic Protection Overlay.

That overlay is the thing to watch. It is the reason a 34-lot subdivision here is a longer review than 34 lots elsewhere in the city.

How we got here

• 34 new buildable lots proposed, Map 860 Lot 30, R-1A district
• New public roads and a wetland crossing identified in the agenda
• Site falls within the Lake Massabesic Protection Overlay
• Public hearing continued from August 5 to September 3, 2026

Continued, not approved. The watershed overlay and the wetland crossing are the open questions.

30 Bryant Road subdivision

Nineteen buildable lots, already conditionally approved. The September 3 item is a six-month extension request on the conditions of approval, which means the developer needs more time to satisfy conditions already attached to the approval.

Conditionally approved is not the same as approved and not the same as permitted. An extension request is a routine step, and it is also the kind of step that quietly tells you a project is moving slower than planned.

How we got here

• 19 buildable lots, conditionally approved
• Six-month extension request for conditions of approval placed on the September 3, 2026 agenda
• The current item is an extension request, not a new approval

Still conditionally approved. Whether the extension is granted is a September 3 question.

516 Elm Street mixed-use redevelopment

A six-story mixed-use building on the former Murphy’s diner property. On June 18 the Planning Board conditionally approved an amendment that raised the residential count from 39 units to 50, alongside 7,875 square feet of first-floor commercial space and 19 parking spaces below grade.

Conditional approval is not a building permit. The conditions still outstanding include City technical signoffs, applicable state and federal approvals, Board of Mayor and Aldermen approvals for right-of-way encroachments and street modifications, final architectural sheets, a traffic and construction management plan, and a pre-construction meeting.

How we got here

• Site plan originally approved at 39 residential units
• June 18, 2026: Planning Board conditionally approves an amendment increasing the count to 50 units
• Conditions precedent remain outstanding; no permit or construction start appears in the municipal record

Conditionally approved, with conditions still to satisfy.

1308 Elm Street mixed-use redevelopment

A separate six-story mixed-use building further up Elm Street, replacing an existing superette. The Planning Board conditionally approved the site plan on July 16 for 51 homes, 3,468 square feet of commercial space, and a 25-vehicle parking garage.

This is a different parcel, a different applicant, and a different approval from 516 Elm Street. The two often get described together because the unit counts add up to 101, but they are two projects. Conditions here include City technical signoffs, state and federal approvals, final architecture, a traffic and construction management plan, a pre-construction meeting, and one additional Elm Street tree.

How we got here

• July 16, 2026: Planning Board conditionally approves the site plan at 51 residential units
• Conditions precedent remain outstanding
• No permit or construction start appears in the municipal record

Conditionally approved, and separate from 516 Elm Street.

Bodwell Road cluster subdivision

A conceptual open-space cluster subdivision on the west side: 44 single-family lots with common open space in the R-1A district. It came before the Planning Board on June 4 as design review, which is the earliest formal stage a plan reaches.

Engineering and traffic analysis were not complete at design review. Items flagged for further work include a likely waiver on cul-de-sac length, site access, water and sewer capacity, drainage and downstream runoff, NHDES letters of deficiency and Alteration of Terrain permitting, and usable access to the open space.

How we got here

• June 4, 2026: design review before the Planning Board, case S2026-010
• Engineering and traffic analysis incomplete at that stage
• No formal application decision or next hearing appears in the municipal record

Design review only. This one is a long way from an approval.

Putnam Street and Amherst Street condominiums

A site plan and condominium subdivision to merge two lots and build two duplexes, for a stated total of ten condominium units in the R-B district. Small, infill, and the kind of project that never makes the news but adds real units downtown.

The item was on the September 3 agenda and has been postponed to September 17 at the applicant’s request.

How we got here

• Site plan and condominium subdivision requested to merge Map 62 Lots 83 and 85
• Two duplexes proposed, ten condominium units stated in total, R-B district
• September 3 agenda item postponed at the applicant’s request
• Now scheduled for September 17, 2026 before the Planning Board

Scheduled, not heard. A postponement at the applicant’s request is usually paperwork, not trouble.

Tuscan Village — West Village District

Tuscan Village keeps leaning further into housing. The workforce and affordable component has grown from 50 units to 72 since it was first floated, and the developers have separately looked at dropping planned lab and life-science space, citing vacancy in that market. Full build-out across the whole property is projected near 2,000 residential units eventually.

Still conceptual. No hearing date confirmed yet.

One Oceanfront South

This is the one project on this page that’s actually cleared to build. The Planning Board approved it back in March 2020, and it took until July 2026 for the final permit to come through, nearly nine years from the first hearing. It’s the closest thing Salisbury Beach has to a year-round residential building, five stories with retail on the ground floor.

How we got here

• First appeared before the Planning Board in late 2017
• Unanimous Planning Board approval, March 2020
• Final permit issued, July 2026

Approved and permitted. No construction start date announced yet.

Noah Estates

Noah Estates started out as a 23-home proposal at 112 Little Mill Road. During Planning Board review, the applicant’s representative said a yield analysis found 21 homes fit the property better, and more recent town materials describe it that way now. Twenty-one additional single-family homes in one project is enough to get my attention in a town Sandown’s size.

How we got here

• Originally filed as a 23-home subdivision
• May 19, 2026 Planning Board hearing: yield analysis presented, plan narrowed to 21 homes
• Still moving through subdivision and wetlands review
• Continued; next hearing September 15, 2026 before the Planning Board
• Access request identifies 1,645 square feet of forested wetland impact

Not approved. Early enough that the final numbers could still move.

The Villas at Vantage Point

Fifty-one age-restricted units off Thistle Drive, conditionally approved by a unanimous vote on August 5, 2025 with seven conditions attached.

Those conditions are substantial: state permits, counsel review of the condominium documents and the development agreement, a final-plan waiver note, release of the Thistle Drive public servitude, conveyance of 7.64 acres of open space, a final engineering letter, and a positive PREA balance. An August 18, 2026 agenda scheduled the signing of the mylar plan set and the development agreement, which would be the last procedural step. No minutes confirm that the signing happened.

This one came onto the tracker through reconciliation rather than a news event. It had been moving quietly for a year.

How we got here

• August 5, 2025: conditional approval granted unanimously with seven conditions
• Conditions include state permits, condominium document and development agreement review, open-space conveyance of 7.64 acres, release of the Thistle Drive servitude, final engineering letter, positive PREA balance
• August 18, 2026 agenda scheduled signing of the mylar plan set and development agreement
• Outcome minutes not posted as of August 31, 2026

Furthest along of anything new on this page, and one confirmed signature away from being a real construction timeline.