If a Government Inspector allows Bewley Homes to develop land in Badshot Lea it will send an Exocet missile through Farnham’s Neighbourhood Plan and could herald open season for other developers to build in Farnham.
Oh! Carole
The very integrity of the Neighbourhood Plan that Waverley Borough Councillor Carole Cockburn slaved over for years is now at stake with this single application. Is it any wonder she looks so glum?
Last week it was Haslemere calling for support from everyone: The temperature may be dropping in ‘ Your Waverley’ but its rising in Haslemere.
So WHY DOES Farnham needs your help. National Housebuilder Bewley Homes has appealed the refusal of their application for building 140 houses at Land at Lower Weybourne Lane, Badshot Lea. The site was excluded from both the 2017 Farnham Neighbourhood Plan and the revised 2020 copy which received the full backing of residents with an extraordinary 95.5% support.
The Farnham Society strongly objected to the application when it was considered and subsequently refused by Waverley `Planners. It will submit similar comments to the Planning Inspector for his consideration at the Public Inquiry.
It is now asking everyone to write to the Inspector and record that the site is not included within the Farnham Neighbourhood Plan 2020 and the appeal should be dismissed.
Waverley Planners refused the scheme because:
- It outside the settlement
- In the countryside
- On Flood Zone 2
- On land that is potentially contaminated
- The Strategic Gap between Farnham and Aldershot.
- On land that planning consent has been refused in: Twice in the 1950s;1986; 2013; and 2020.
After all – it isn’t just Farnham’s Neighbourhood Plan that is at stake here, is it? A decision here could impact on all those other local plans – Haslemere; Godalming; Cranleigh’s and others that are either completed or well on their way.
Application Reference: WA/2019/1905
Planning Inspectorate Reference: APP/R3650/W/20/3262641
Deadline for commenting: Thursday 25 February 2021
Address for hardcopy letters: Alison Dyson, The Planning Inspectorate, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Bristol, BS1 6PN
Historically the Inspectorate has required three copies of any written representation.
Representations can be online via https://acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/
Enter the Planning Inspectorate number 3262641 in the ‘Search for a Case’ box and then click on the ‘Make representation’ box which moves you towards an opportunity to complete a request for your details.
If you can find time to write to the Inspector and simply say that the proposals are contrary to the ‘made’ Farnham Neighbourhood Plan the Society says it would be very grateful.
Application Reference: WA/2019/1905
Planning Inspectorate Reference: APP/R3650/W/20/3262641
Deadline for commenting: Thursday 25 February 2021
Address for hardcopy letters: Alison Dyson, The Planning Inspectorate, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Bristol, BS1 6PN
Historically the Inspectorate has required three copies of any written representation.
Representations can be online via https://acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/
Enter the Planning Inspectorate number 3262641 in the ‘Search for a Case’ box and then click on the ‘Make representation’ box which moves you towards an opportunity to complete a request for your details.
If you can find time to write to the Inspector and simply say that the proposals are contrary to the ‘made’ Farnham Neighbourhood Plan the Society says it would be very grateful.
Objection to the appeal lodged online – it took just a couple of mins thanks to the link and info supplied by the Waverley Webbers