What a damned good job that ‘Your Waverley’ is well on the way to producing the new Local Plan.
A plan the Conservative Group insisted was “only given a light touch!”
Here’s the drubbing given by Farnham Cllr Carole Cockburn
Waverley officer defends our existing Local Plan.
What will Aunty Angela’s building revolution mean for ‘ Your Waverley?
Here’s a clip of what Cllr Liz Townsend, the Portfolio Holder for Planning, told her colleagues last week.
More housing dumped in the middle of nowhere, more road miles travelled and zero new infrastructure. If it wasn’t so tragic it would be laughable and who knew Alford was planned as a new town😢
I can hear parish councillors tapping their calculators to see how many homes they can allocate to areas outside of their fortress like plans.
Strange how most vociferously prevented landowners from redesignating land for development. Or Are we all supposed to overlook that.
Meanwhile. MeaninglessMud knows of allocations, (part of that 6000 outstanding), which Liz is going to chivvy along, that physically cannot be built. Which suggests questions will be asked as to the viability of those applications. Only making the situation even worse.
Parishes are pretending they cannot do it. Because they don’t want to spoil their expensive thus economically protected from the actual state of the nation in a false belief they live in a rural idyll. They don’t. They live in an outer suburb close enough to town.
Hiding the problem doesn’t solve it. Houses have to be built and if it means the gin soaked Surrey Hills is dragged into that real world where young people need homes, nurses and emergency service personnel have decent homes and create new communities, then bring it on.
MeaninglessMud
The MP for Godalming & Ash wants the “gin soaked Surrey Hills” to become a new National Park. So the writer who suggested Alfold New Town hit the button. Next to Dunsfold New Town and the new Gipsy & Traveller New town?
Perhaps if our smaller more rural Villages could actually see some major infrastructure improvements they may be more welcoming of more development. All we get in Alfold (apart from the DP Roundabout which HAS reduced the number of HGVs thundering down Dunsfold Road) is a few pavements that have been widened some dropped kerbs and some proposed new bus shelters for the rare buses to use.
Whilst our Pocket-money from CIL payments barely scratches the surface of what this Village needs, unless of course you want an Outdoor Multi Gym next to the Village hall and a Ping Pong Table!
I personally rather like the idea of some of the Greybelt land coming into use – not that we have any as the village wasn’t deemed to need Greenbelt Protection!
Defining this new Grey Belt will be fun. There has to be some form of specification or explicit guidance on what should be brough forward into the planning system as sites. Surely only sustainable locations will be considered.
No doubt the developers will have there own ideas of what is sustainable.
Counsel – wigs at the ready!