The village of Alfold was stunned when it received an avalanche of proposed new development, which descended on it in just one day!
One development for 80 homes – another for 400.
Even WW, hardened reporters of Alfold’s plight, are sick and tired of watching one little corner of Waverley being over-run by developers!
When is this nightmare going to stop in a villge regularly clothed in shit. We will not use the word poo, or manure, because there is no room for politeness any more?
Alfold is becoming a health hazard! Villagers are crying out for more infrastructure, not more homes.
Outline application with all matters reserved except for access for a development of up to 400 dwellings to provide private and affordable homes with a community commercial facility; associated infrastructure works including vehicle cycle and pedestrian access allotments areas of open space and play provision; sustainable drainage and landscaping. accompanied by an environmental statement.
Masterplan – H145-THA-PO1-ZZ-D-A-0008-Illustrative Masterplan.pdf
The Horsham-based Thakeham bully boys are at it again as they salivate at the prospect of concreting over more farmland on the Springbok Estate.
Its first phase of 99 homes on part of the same site was flogged off to Oriel Homes due to a ” bit of a problem with our cash flow,” its spokesman told villagers at a public consultation. A session was held in a tiny church room with more Thakeham thugs than villagers, and where it received a resounding NO – leave our village alone!
So, with another 400 planned, off Loxwood Road, a few hundred yards down the road, local farmer John Watt has jumped onto Thakeham’s bandwagon with an application for another 80. The farmland on either side of Springbok and Rosemary Lane is now looking more vulnerable every day.
We hear from another source that a developer is building on former farmer John Wards land, having received consent from Chichester Council. The development in Rosemary Lane is on land in the borough of Waverley.
Has Alfold Parish Council gone to sleep? Oops, we forgot. The Chairman of its Planning Committee Cllr Chris Britton was far too busy protecting his home overlooking Dunsfold airfield. The largest brownfield site in the borough earmarked for circa 2,800 homes that he, with his friends at POW (Protect Our Waverley) helped to block.
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Geoff Knight 5 Glebelands Meadow wrote:
This is absurd; there is no infrastructure to support the addition of a further 800 homes. The sewers cannot support the current level of additional homes already built. There are already major problems with the electricity supply in the village, with frequent power outages and low supply voltages. I have been waiting for over two years to get my domestic supply fuse upgraded so that my all-electric home is supported. No surgery places are available in the village, and all schooling will be out of the village. (Both are in Sussex.) It is no good making planning conditions to alleviate these problems because the developers promise to fix these problems and then just ignore any mandatory provisions anyway.
Caroline Martucci 33 Clappers Meadow
Stop and think! Look at recent issues for Alfold.
The sewage system cannot cope with the current overload. The roads cannot take the extra traffic. There are no local schools with spaces. There is no local shop. Public transport doesn’t support the village for this number of people. This village is losing its appeal and getting over-run with building – please, please reconsider!
And to add insult to injury, Feckless Follows says it’s our own fault because we didn’t vote for him and his bunch.
No, it’s because WBC has failed for successive years to keep on top of their 5YHLS, and because WBC planning committee have failed to update and activate a local plan.
The earliest a local plan can be voted and mandated is Q3 2027. By which time, Alfold will either be under a blanket of poop, or a blanket of concrete, or both.
Meanwhile, the Thakeham Thugs, own independant survey places the WBC 5YHLS figures at a derisory 1.06, down from the shameful 1.28.
Reminds me of a very poor taste joke about death; when it’s my time I hope to go peacefully like my grandad, unlike the passengers in his car.
WBC, are you asleep at the wheel? Or dead to the crisis that you have caused.
We need help.
Not deflection.
Not playground politics.
Not blame history, government figures, alien invasion, Donald Trump, or the Mary Celeste.
Alfold needs YOUR HELP
NOW!!
Alfold is a taster.
Much more to come.
And coming to the gin soaked Surrey Hills next.
Up to know an aspect that has been deliberately (by design) obscure, is the division of plots. Existing landowners quietly calculating what their slice of Waverley is worth.
There will be an earthquake of land sales this year.
Money will drive a wedge into the anti build camp. It always does.
Auntie Angie will have her way.
MeaninglessMud
You Just have to read the hundreds of pages of GUMPH on the Waverley Planning portal for the Thakeham Application to see how devious they are. The First Application back in 2015 was a Hybrid Application for 400 Homes plus Accomodation at Care Ashore, This incarnation is Outline for 400 homes… But Thakeham fail to mention they already have 99 Homes being built next door, so lets just call it 500 Homes shall we?
This increase of Houses on the land has resulted in a “Master Plan” that shows building heights of between 10.5mtrs to 13mtrs.
Bearing in mind an average 2 story building is between 6.1 – 7.6mts, a 3 storey is 9-10mtrs and a 4 storey is up to 12mtrs…. Someone do the maths!
They are “Offering” a Community Space /Hub/Cafe – WE HAVE ONE being provided by the Vistry Development on the A281. They also propose a TRIM TRAIL…. We are soon to install an Large Outdoor Multi Gym with Running track near the Village hall. Other tasters include Allotments and Orchards… The Only people that may want to make use of those will be the Poor New Residents who will potentially have Postage-Stamp Gardens, there is no longer any Provision for a School as SCC have confirmed there is no requirement for one.
So what does Alfold get out of this?
More Cars on the A281
More Sewage spilling in peoples gardens or being Tankered out.
Less Power than we already have
More people who will need to access Health Services and Schools
Their “Consultations” with local residents back in 2023-24 were laughable and we have only LAST WEEK seen the publication of the the Feedback which clearly indicates that the was ZERO Support for their proposals, But who needs to worry about that minor issue when Waverely doesn’t have a 5 Year Housing Land Supply?
‘Shafted’, is what Alfold gets.
Perhaps someone in Alfold needs to start rallying the troops?
The militia are armed, posted to picket duty.
Over 100 objections by neighbours in Alfold, Cranleigh, Bramley, Ifold, Winnersh, Loxwood, Hascombe, Kirdford, Shamley, Rudgwick, Chiddingfold, Godalming, all think this is madness and have signed the planning application.
The poor WBC clerk cannot cope with the deluge.
BBC Surrey are running daily updates, Jeremy Hunt has just asked Thames Water to block the application from an infrastructure angle.
Everyone thinks this is just madness…..