The Waverley Web Spiders couldn’t believe their (trichobothria). We don’t have ears, but we can still pick up sounds thanks to long, sensitive leg hairs.
Listen to this little gem from Waverley Council Leader Paul Follows, speaking at an executive meeting on Tuesday.
You can see what he is referring to by clicking the link below. The Elmbridge residents aren’t the only ones kicking up a stink. Alfold residents are also fuming about the mucky brown stuff contaminating their recreation grounds.
Alfold Parish Council will be bending the ears of none other than The Chancellor on Friday during a telephone call and MP Aunty Angie rocked for a photocall on the stinking Alfold pitch. But as you can see below, guess who voted for more sewage dumping?
No water, then flooding, and now – sewage, sewage everywhere – and it stinks!
Who passed the planning on all the new builds in the area of the Cranleigh Waters and sewage treatment plant, which council was that I wonder??????
Exactly!
Sandra, I believe that it was the WBC, but under the previous (Conservative) leadership. It is known that the largest developer contributes significant sums to the above mentioned party – probably unrelated
It was more to do with water companies saying there was no problem, planning inspectors and planning law, all of which rode roughshod over local planning committees.
We have always wondered on that particular application why Thakeham Homes employees were so well in with the Waverley Planning Department they were allowed to sit around the table with the officers in the centre of the council chamber. Unheard of in our experience. But then friends will be friends won’t they. Funnily enough what did Thakeham do as soon as it had planning consent? Sell the site off to another developer. Another shameful chapter in the Waverley Planning Saga! One day we will write a book – it would be a best seller.
“that particular planning application” – you have lost me WW. Which one are you referring to? There have been a few on lower lying areas around Cranleigh.
There was one early case (the big Berkeleys site) possibly about ?10 years ago where as I recall Waverley Friends of the Earth was firmly of the view that the site should have been considered as part of an area wide strategic flood risk assessment – so looking at the site against others in Waverley not just in Cranleigh as WBC insisted. This was ignored by WBC legal at the time so we got a supporting legal opinion and it was still ignored.
The Berkeleys site may not have flooded post construction and indeed I sincerely hope it hasn’t. If it hasn’t flooded in my view that has probably been achieved by lift the ground/floor levels very significantly. I took a picture of the manhole covers during construction showing them standing metres in the air above the existing ground level and awaiting infill material. The houses would I think have been even higher. This would have taken a colossal amount of material to achieve across the whole site.
This is not sustainable (low carbon) construction on any view.
Hi Kathy
I think the WW is referring to the Thakeham Site (ex) just off Elmbridge Road. WA/2016/1921 which was approved at the WBC JPC on 5th October 2017
I remember it well as I watched the meeting on YouTube and was shocked at the behavior of the Chair when Cllr Jerry Hyman attempted to inform the other Councillors about the Flood risk and was basically told to SHUT UP as he wasn’t an EXPERT on the issue, whilst an Agent (working for Thakeham Homes) sat at the Table with the Planning Officers smirking throughout – Plenty of Info ( if you have the time to scroll through the Squillions of Condition Pages to get to the Decision Notice) – with all the hand written Scribbles all over it. – Happy to forward on to you via email
Cheers
Denise
The Thakeham Homes application we referred to was Willowbrook on the Cranleigh Waters River a notorious flood plain. It is in Elmbridge Road opposite the Sewage Works . The post was called …Thakeham’s home – but certainly not dry!
I was asked to present Cranleigh Parish’s position against the development at the Thakeham site as chair of the planning committee. We had pictures of the site as a field under water. The chair of the WBC at the time said that we could NOT show these pictures to the WBC committee that were deliberating that application.
So what are you saying – You couldn’t Object? – Also I thought the Chair was Cllr Isherwood (Deceased) and didn’t think it kind to mention that
I am not a complete Numpt-head