The owners of an Arts & Crafts house in Wonersh want to replace it with two dwellings.
Planning officers are recommending approval at the planning meeting to be held tonight, Wednesday.
However, you can garden grab everywhere else in ‘your Waverley’ except in Wonersh Park.
But 33 Wonersh Park residents have urged Waverley ~planners to refuse the scheme, claiming it would change the area’s character.
WW wonders how Cllr ‘ I wannabe an MP’ Jane Austin will vote, having just purchased a house in Wonersh Park.
We heard from one of her neighbours that for someone so insistent on consultation, why didn’t she consult her neighbours before she cut down trees and erected fences to define her boundary without consulting them? Will she vote or declare an interest? Or will she become another NIMBY?
- 33 letters have been received from 44 individual households raising objections on the following grounds:
- There are no Very Special Circumstances that would outweigh this
- Inappropriate development.
- The development does not represent limited infilling in a village and is, as such, inappropriate development within the Green Belt.
- Wildlife and biodiversity would be harmed as a result of the development.
- Allowing the development would set a precedent that would allow other
- plots to be subdivided, leading to permanent change for the worse in the character of Wonersh Park.
- The development, situated at the top of the hill, would have a significant adverse impact on the adjacent properties.
- The proposed development creates an overdevelopment of the current site
- The development would exacerbate local flooding issues.
- Principle of developmentThe site is located within the Green Belt outside any defined settlement area. Policy RE2 of the Local Plan (Part 1) 2018 outlines that the Green Belt will continue to be protected from inappropriate development. Inappropriate development will not be permitted unless very special circumstances can be demonstrated.Certain forms of development are not inappropriate in accordance with the provisions of the National Planning Policy Framework 2023 (NPPF), and will be permitted provided they do not conflict with the exceptions listed in paragraphs 154
and 155 of the NPPF, particularly at paragraph 154 (e) of the NPPF, which allows limited infilling in villages.Policy DM14 of the Local Plan (Part 2) sets out in greater detail how applications in the Green Belt are to be assessed regarding their impact on openness and proportionality. It states that a percentage guideline is to be used for the assessment of proposals outside of settlements.