As part of preparing a new Local Plan for Waverley, the Council is undertaking a Call for Sites to inform the 2024 Land Availability Assessment (LAA).
This stock-take of potential sites can be assessed through the plan-making process.
Sites submitted to the borough council may be shared with the relevant parish or town council to enable them to undertake their own site assessments as part of preparing their Neighbourhood Plans.
The current Land Availability Assessment (LAA) was published in November 2020. The LAA 2024 will be a key evidence document for the new Local Plan.
This Call for Sites will run from 20 December 2023 to 31 March 2024.
How to submit a site
Waverley Council wants to hear from you if you have a site which you consider to be suitable for development for the following uses:
- Residential uses (including student and other communal accommodation such as older persons housing)
- Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation
- Employment and/or retail use
- Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG)
- Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) offsetting sites
- Renewable energy generation
- Other uses (such as recreational, leisure, community).
To submit a site, please complete the online form and upload a site location plan showing the site’s boundary clearly depicted in red.
New Local Plan: Call for sites 2023/24 online form
Alternatively, please download a copy of the form below and return to:
- planningpolicy@waverley.gov.uk; or
- Call for Sites, Planning Policy, Planning Services, Waverley Borough Council, The Burys, Godalming, GU7 1HR. Electronic submissions via email are preferred.
The deadline for the receipt of sites is 31 March 2024. Sites received after this date will not be assessed and included in the LAA 2024.
However, the call for sites is always open, and sites submitted will be held and assessed at the next opportunity. If you have previously promoted a site to the Council, please do not re-submit unless there are substantial changes to the information relating to the site.
Guidelines for submission
- Please complete a separate form for each site.
- Please include as much information as possible and provide a location map that clearly identifies the site boundary.
There is no site size threshold for the submission of sites. However, when assessing sites for the LAA, the Council will only assess sites put forward for residential uses which can deliver more than 5 net additional dwellings. Parish and Town Councils may decide to use a different site size threshold when assessing sites for neighbourhood planning purposes.
Privacy notices
Please be aware that any information you submit in response will be made publicly available by Waverley Borough Council and will be identifiable by name or organisation.
I would like to suggest that Alfold puts in all the areas surrounding our Settlement Boundary as Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) offsetting sites…….
Great idea. Perhaps the planners will leave Alfold alone. The village can live in hope.
Hi WW
Honestly – I wish – I am sure they are reading the Call for sites with GLEE! and just working out which of the small and larger gaps they can fill in. One day someone at WBC is going to realise that many of these Approved sites are still sitting on their hands … I have yet to see anything building out at Brockhurst Farm who are no doubt still waiting to see if they can get the additional 11 Homes ON APPEAL after WBC Planners refused it on the 19th Jan 2024. taking the site from first 23 to 30 homes and if they go to Appeal it will be 41 Homes.
Rumours are that even The Barn Restaurant’s Application for PDR to allow for it to be reinstated as a Restaurant will be turning into converting it to Flats! Watch this space…….
The Planning meetings are now a complete waste of time – They review small Applications whilst leaving the larger ones waiting and complaining………..BLAH BLAH BLAH
Finally I await updates on Wildwood Golf Course (disused) we all know it is coming……………. WBC Planners have been in Pre-App Meetings for years now – It is obvious something is going on as seen by the rather large Expensive cars parked up by the Clubhouse and the fact that much of the rubbish/ skips that were there have been removed – Obviously tarting it up for prospective Buyers!!
They take this beautiful part of our Village at their peril unless they really have something to offer this village – and that doesn’t mean a shed load more housing and doesn’t stop the Village and Cranleigh enjoying this wonderful Heritage Asset.
Best as ever
Denise
Time to organise and form local wiring groups to oppose any plans on sites where there is biodiversity (ie almost everywhere) … social housing is a good thing but all too often these developments are for the same old paradigm- neo classical houses in huge estates with no shop units or growing spaces . Disasterous for more cars on roads and for biodiversity (net gain is b***cks, I’m an ecological surveyor and I see it not working up close.
How interesting for someone in the “know” – When I saw the paper on Bio diversity OFFSETTING I was furious – It gives developers the opportunity to shift their responsibilities for providing it where it is Needed to elsewhere where most likely or not there are a few Back Handers ?? and that is exactly what they are proposing for the lastest Reserved Matters Application for WA/2023/01468 on the Horsham Road – I would love to hear more about it really doesn’t work – “Do spill the beans!”
Best
Denise