Here at the Waverley Web, we thought you might be interested in the amount of brownfield land available in Waverley, excluding Dunsfold Park, the largest brownfield site in the Borough.
It isn’t a considerable amount but look for yourself on Waverley’s Brownfield Reister in the link below.
Maybe some parts of the Borough are not quite pulling their weight for housing development.
Cranleigh residents are quaking in their boots. In anticipation of having thousands more homes and thousands more cars converging on the new town. The streets there are gridlocked most of the time.
However, Martin Bamford, the President of The Chamber of Commerce, is jubilant at the increase in footfall on the High Street. He has recently published figures showing how popular the town has become due to its street markets.
Interesting – but for Haslemere, virtually all these brownfield sites already are either under construction, or have planning proposals in preparation. The only other is unrealistic and unlikely ever to be developed.
Dunsfold Park was the former airfield made during the war from farmland and is still green in colour and location. There must be more sites within the Haslemere and Farnham areas which are classified as green but could be used for the much needed housing for our ever increasing population in UK.
Oh yes as for a long time, shove all the building into Farnham whose infrastructure (schools, sewerage, water etc) is creaking. What is need is a totally new settlement with new infrastructure including raid connections, Dunsfold provides just that opportunity. People in that area can’t escape the housing pressure that has been and is still on the rest of the borough.
Perhaps the residents of Waverley should set up a Petition calling on Trinity College Cambridge to extract a digit and build the 2800 homes it has planning consent for? Or perhaps call on the Government (after all Jeremy Hunt wants to represent the eastern part of the borough) and having delayed the scheme for years he could demand TCC either builds it or let’s someone else do it. Just a thought.
The council needs to get its finger out and build at dunsfold and stop all other development until all 2600 are built and occupied!
And Julian – Where do you live?
It isn’t Waverley that is blocking Development – It is the Owners – Trinity College.
If the rest of the Borough hadn’t decided it was BEST to build the majority of Housing in one of the most UNSUSTAINABLE/MOST DEPRIVED Parishes in the East of the Borough – which meant the developers would have to spend squillions to improve the lack of any infrastructure in the area – it may just HAVE HAPPENED!
But why on earth would anyone want what is a (Potentially) CONTAMINATED Site which will cost a shed-load to clean up before any development can even start, and bearing in mind when you are proposing 2600 Homes (1800 for starters) this will have to be a Multi-Developer site – It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to say this was a VERY SILLY MISTAKE that the rest of the Borough made to make up numbers OUTSIDE of their towns & Villages,without thinking it through – Shame on them!
Development is developing land to deliver maximum profit so why bother to develop it until it delivers?