The aim of this website is to ensure the continued use of the Chrismas Lodge site for the local community in a way that supports that community and wildlife of Brickfields Park by ensuring all avenues of consultation are explored and examined. The B.E.S.T Report, The Brickfields Environmental Sustainability Trust, is our vehicle to promote this discussion about the future of Chrismas Lodge. Discussion of this website and its aims are open to all interested parties and any comment is invited and welcomed, please use this form to contact us.

The Chrismas Lodge care home is located in - Evelyn Avenue, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 3QB.

The image at right is a map of the Chrismas Lodge - Brickfields Country Park showing, in blue, the area belonging to Hampshire County Council (HCC). This land has been in use by Brickfields Country Park since it was opened in 1985 and this has been acknowledged by HCC. Potentially this land will be claimed by any prospective developers of the Chrismas Lodge site. Click the image for a larger view.

It was a 36 bed home for the elderly and older people with senile dementia, two of the beds were for respite care. It was in use until November 2005 when along with five other homes in the borough, some over one hundred years old, it was closed by Hampshire County Council citing its unsuitability and imcresed costs to meet new care standards. Since then it has lain empty, a target for graffiti and vandals (see the gallery page). The site has been confirmed by HCC as no longer meeting their needs and will be sold for development.

Development on this site will be detrimental to not only the local residents through increased traffic on narrow residential roads, but also to the wildlife of the site and in the adjoining Brickfields Country Park.

Left, an aerial view of the Chrismas Lodge and Brickfields Country Park (click the image for a larger view.)

The Chrismas family were landowners in the Aldershot area for many generations and the Chrismas name lends itself to many landmarks in the local area, one being Chrismas Avenue. "The story of Aldershot" by Howard Cole states that it was named after the Chrismas family who farmed Park Farm, Aldershot for three generations. Sidney Chrismas J.P. was Mayor of Aldershot in 1968/69.

Discussion of this website and its aims are open to all and any comment is invited and welcomed, please use this form to contact us.