Scary or what!!!
So who exactly is our borough and county councils depending on to provide much future infrastructure?
Yes, you guessed it! Trinity College Cambridge is on the tailwings of its Dunsfold airfield site, which has been “Mothballed!”
Is Dunsfold Garden Village Done For?
Here at the Waverley Web, we thought this document deserved some airing. It reveals the failure of the current system to deliver vital and much needed infrastructure ahead of and to support new development,
Alfold is a prime example.
It’s well worth searching by localities. So we spotlighted the eastern villages where so much development has been earmarked, including Cranleigh and Alfold.
As for Dunsfold, what can we say? The borough’s reliance on development at Dunsfold Airfield, the largest brownfield site in the borough, is frightening.
A site with consent for 1,800 homes and many more in the Local Plan, that the owners of Trinity College Cambridge announced was “mothballing” for the foreseeable future.
This leaves Waverley’s five-year housing supply in tatters.
So, where has the infrastructure listed in clips from the plan below been provided?
Could you take a look at the complete Infrastructure Plan yourself? If you can bear it!
Talk about complacency or uselessness would be more accurate. Never mind all the quotes and waffle from the current local plan. This and its predecessors, presumably knocking around since the current local plan was adopted in 2018, have delivered sweet FA, at least at the Waverley and county level in most areas.
The only organisations that have delivered anything are Cranleigh, which has a modernised village hall, and the parish of Witley, which has delivered play areas!
3.6 is particularly worrying. This document will remain in place until the next local plan is adopted—this year, next year, or sometime, perhaps, by a new Unitary Authority.
When is that? Never mind that this is a ‘living document, ’ which WW thought meant that things were meant to be kept up to date!
How about this as an example of a lack of infrastructure? The village where they are champion Stool Ball Players!
Indeed. It’s a SCARY Waverley infrastructure schedule and sad how little has been done.
You can see that Trinity/developers would have eye watering large amounts of money for infrastructure to fund when the Dunsfold aerodrome 1800 homes development proceeds. These include Energy £15m, Routes within the site for cycles and paths and recreation areas £15 m, and Community halls £10m. And the contamination issues are not listed which will cost a lot.