According to press reports, many years ago, the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture earmarked a site in Alfold as a mini-Poundbury, with homes earmarked for village people.
Apparently, the locals tell us here at the WW that it didn’t get off the starting blocks because the council’s planning officers of the day claimed Alfold didn’t need ANY development! What a difference a decade or two makes!
Almost 500 permissions in the bag – and many hundreds more proposed.
Now, the owners of the site at Brockhurst Farm, off Dunsfold Road and fronting onto the A281 Guilford to Horsham Road – are gearing up their barrister friends to fight yet another Appeal.
Whadaya Know? Yes, yet another Appeal… this one, while only 11, if won, will increase the number of Properties at Brockhurst Farm to 41!!
Development by Stealth
When the first Application was proposed, the developer wanted 43 homes, which were later reduced to 39. That Application was REFUSED, and it went on to Appeal, which, too, was refused, but the smaller one of 23 Homes was allowed.
Are you still with us – 23 homes
They then added seven more homes to the side, bringing the total to 30 Homes and now this… Pass Go—and almost back to where the developer first started!
Brockhurst Renotification_4707398
To date, over 450 permissions have been granted in Alfold, compared to the 125 minimum homes allocated to Alfold in the Waverley Local Plan.
Said one Alfold objector.
The Local Plan Settlement Hierarchy calls for only modest development in the “smaller villages”, of which Alfold is one. The current amount of development already risks material skewing of the Spatial Strategy. Previous reasons for the refusal of a greater amount of homes on this site can be found in the Inspector’s report from the previous appeals. All of these grounds still stand and are equally valid today as they were in 2018, if not more so given the over 300 permissions granted in Alfold since then.
With Waverley’s lack of 5-year land supply and the New Labour Government’s proposed increase for housing in Waverley, where will it all end?
With a new master plan for the first phase of 1,800 homes on the adjacent Dusfold Airfield site, Dunsfold Garden Village, Alfold residents say what they predicted will be this.
The new town of AlDun!
