Oh dear, what can the matter be?
Alfold is turning into a lavatory!
And here comes another shitload of housing as Wates Developments prepares to wade through the mucky brown stuff to build another 80 homes in Alfold – most of which will be unaffordable?!
And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse? Yes, folks, it gets worse. The wolves are descending to take another bite out of the countryside.
Another 400 homes to bury “Poor Old lAfold” in another blanket of shit!
Thakeham Homes, Cala Homes, Vistry Homes; Oriel Homes; Bewley Homes; Q Homes; Eamonn Holmes and No Shit Sherlock Holmes!
Said one resident who wants to run for the hills…
More housing for ALFOLD! Thakeham’s 400 proposed homes…. will go some way to filling the Gap in the 5YHLS!
Who cares if all the new residents will have to drive so they won’t be able to see a doctor for weeks or get their Kids into schools? After all, if you are taken in by the developers’ marketing Gumph, you would honestly believe that Alfold has it all. It is only 30 (odd) miles to London by car and close to numerous train stations. After all, it is perfect for commuters. N’es pas?
It’s a bloody disgrace, decisions made by morons who are prepared to overide serious environmental health issues. We are going back to the dark ages in order to accommodate that cretin Rayner
It sits squarely at the inbox of Cllr Liz Townsend, the elected official who has the full responsibility of the planning. Complete and utter failure of joined up thinking, complete and utter failure of prevention. What the hell has Alfold ever done to her to deserve this abominable treatment??
I advise EVERYbody to complete the feedback form and tell wbc that NO, MEANS NO!!
Sadly, if only it were that simple, perhaps the time has come to identify who the real culprits are for the shit show that has dogged Alfold. Or, as one Chiddingfold councillor once described the village, “Poor old Alfold.” Approximately 56 homes in Alfold were consented by Waverley Borough Council. The remainder was granted by a whole string of Government Inspectors who were persuaded by a phalanx of barristers who continuously misled the gullible bunch of civil servants.
So, where does much of the blame lie? Top of the pile is the MP Jeremy Hunt. Who, together with his Guildford colleague MP Anne Milton, persuaded the then Secretary of State to call in the Dunsfold airfield planning application! The same Jeremy Hunt who said as recently as the general election that he “lived in fear of Dunsfold Garden Villas ever going ahead, because there would be a rat run of commuters heading past his home on their way to Milford Station!
And, lest we forget: How about Alfold Parish Council, which objected to the largest brownfield site in the borough ever been developed? Even breaking every rule in the book by using its Parish Clerk to help syphon money through its books resulting from the fundraising campaign launched by “Protect Our Waverley’ which was nothing other than protect homes surrounding Dunsfold and had sod all to do with saving anything but their backsides. Where is that organisation now? Saving Alfold. No, the chairman of Alfold’s planning committee is Little Britton, a leader of that POW group.
Did Alfold have a Neighbourhood Plan despite Waverley’s advice to get one on the books? No, not until a year ago, when nearby ~ Loxwood had theirs a decade earlier.
As or Cllr Kevin Deanus, who regularly held his hand out asking for money from Dunsfold’s owners, did he support development at Dunsfold. No way. Now, together with the hypocritical Jeremy Hunt, he is meeting with Dunsfold to determine how they can help move the development on! Really? You couldn’t make it up. Let’s face it: Alfold is stuffed. Most of its older inhabitants have already left, and the village is littered like confetti with For Sale signs.
Sadly, Alfold residents have been apathetic. And please make sure you direct your fire toward the people who rightly deserve it.
Those historical failures/corruptions may also be true to add to the woven fabric of the quagmire, but LT has held personal responsibility for the last 4 years(?), and the YHLS numbers have dropped through the floor during the same time period- coincidence?
The 5YHLS is the biggest issue that changes the dynamics from the maybe to the must have in terms of acceptance of development, with no joined up ‘planning’, ironic really given the committee and job title….
All to blame,
But who to suffer?
Everybody?
Somebody?
Anybody?
Nobody?
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
EVERYbody suffers!!
The High Court (Nathalie Lieven QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) has dismissed claims by CPRE Surrey and POWCampaign Limited to quash parts of the Waverley Borough Council Local Plan Part 1, including the allocation of land at Dunsfold Aerodrome for a new settlement.
The Court also dismissed a parasitic challenge to the Secretary of State’s decision to grant planning permission for 1,800 homes at Dunsfold, which followed a call-in Inquiry in 2017. The claims turned on the Local Plan Inspector’s approach to unmet need in the housing market area and, specifically, whether Waverley should accommodate unmet housing need from Woking.
The Deputy Judge found that there was no legal error in the setting of Waverley housing requirement. The Local Plan Inspector was in a difficult position in respect of Woking’s unmet need, but he could not realistically determine a housing requirement for Woking and therefore was entitled to rely on the figure in the SHMA to identify the scale of the unmet need arising from that Borough.
A reasons challenge also failed, with the Deputy Judge noting that requiring a Local Plan Inspector to set out the level of detail which is normally in a s. 78 appeal decision would be to impose an unreasonable and ultimately unnecessary burden.
The challenge to the Secretary of State’s decision to grant planning permission was parasitic on the Local Plan claim succeeding, and accordingly was also dismissed. David Elvin QC and Richard Turney acted for Dunsfold Airport Limited in the High Court proceedings, instructed by Mills & Reeve LLP. Christopher Katkowski QC led Richard Turney in the call-in Inquiry.