by admin | Jan 15, 2021 | Affordable Housing, Ancient Woodland, Flooding, Housing, Waverley Borough Council
Waverley BC sent this message around about Local Plan part 2. Part 1 was agreed in 2018 and is about strategic policies and sites (where buildings are hoped to go)
REMINDER: PRE-SUBMISSION LOCAL PLAN PART 2 CONSULTATION CLOSING FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2021
Thank you if you have already responded to the above consultation. If you have not, I am writing to remind you that the consultation will be closing at 11.59pm on Friday 29 January 2021.
Where can I view the documents?
The Waverley Borough Council Pre-Submission Local Plan Part 2: Site Allocation and Development Management Policies and other supporting documents are available at: www.waverley.gov.uk/LPP2.
Due to the national lockdown we are currently unable to make hard copies of documents available for viewing at the Council Offices or any other locations. However, other suitable arrangements will be made for those who are not able to view the documents electronically. Anyone wishing to make such arrangements, please contact us on 01483 523291 as soon as possible to ensure that we can help you well in advance of the deadline for the consultation
How can I make representations?
If you prefer to write or email, please reference your correspondence with the relevant paragraph or policy number. Please note that representations will be publicly available and cannot be treated as confidential, although address, telephone and email details will not be published.
Please see our privacy notice for further details: www.waverley.gov.uk/PlanningPolicyPN. If you need a hard copy of the privacy notice, please contact us on 01483 523291.
Representations may be accompanied by a request to be notified at a specified address of any of the following:
i) The Local Plan Part 2 has been submitted for independent examination;
ii) The publication of the Inspector’s report; and
iii) The adoption of the Local Plan Part 2.
For more information or assistance on this consultation please contact the Planning Policy Team on 01483 523291 or email planningpolicy@waverley.gov.uk.
Supporting documents
Evidence documents
All other relevant documents can be found on our evidence studies and supporting documents page.
by admin | Jan 12, 2021 | Ancient Woodland, Cranleigh
Does anyone have money to save our trees? Land for sale between Cranleigh and Ewhurst, in parcels that look good for a house and garden.
Only trouble is it is surrounded with ancient woodland! And needs to be saved!
No-one can replace ancient woodland – the earth and creatures matter as much, if not more, than the trees themselves.
See what the Woodland Trust explains here
Land off Bookhurst Road, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 7DW
click here to follow the link
Maybe our councillors and council officers can designate the area as an asset of community value?
Woodlands provide clean air and joy for people all around as well as vital habitats that need to be protected and to join up with each for the sake of nature.
Click here for more about such assets.
by admin | Nov 28, 2019 | Affordable Housing, Ancient Woodland, Cranleigh, Cranleigh Hospital, Cranleigh Primary School, KPI, Surrey County Council
Our fields are saved – so far! And even the trees ……
At the Waverley borough Council Joint Planning meeting on 27th November the councillors and all others spoke well and represented every view. On balance they voted to say no to HC-One & CVHT‘s planning application – the 60 bed Care Home Application with 20 community beds and health workers’ accommodation block – for reasons of “over-development & traffic & against the Local Plan” – in essence we don’t want the field filled up and the traffic increased, but we do feel upset that their isn’t a viable way to bring beds back to Cranleigh now.
They also voted to say no to the housing on the 2 Cranleigh Primary School sites – 91 dwellings and the loss of many trees – reasons – “over-development, loss of trees, loss of village look and feel (we think)”.
They voted for the Knowle Country Park and its lake – this will go ahead and is nothing but an asset all the while it has a vibrant and caring management team – how the future will go remains to be seen but we are lucky – so long as we understand that a body of wild water is a dangerous place! We will witness digging to provide the lake, then planting on a mass scale. The Ancient Woodland is to be preserved too – yippee.
All the councillors and visiting speakers did their best for Cranleigh. If you follow this link you can read all the agenda pack and additional documents – here and the minutes will be published there as well.
As for the replacement Primary School project – this is not over at all. Surrey County Council Cabinet has already approved building the new school with nursery on fields that are currently Glebelands school’s. On December 18th their Planning and Scrutiny committee will look at this again. see here for details and watch same space for the agenda items and agenda pack.
Surrey County Council –
Venue: Ashcombe Suite, County Hall, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2DN.
Wednesday, 18 December 2019 10.30 am, Planning and Regulatory Committee.
Our representative on this committee is Dr Andrew Povey – you can contact him here –
by Sue Dale | Jan 17, 2019 | Ancient Woodland, Cranleigh, Waverley Borough Council
The Council has received a number of requests for Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) in the countryside adjoining Cranleigh, due to the current pressure for housing delivery that may potentially endanger old trees and their wildlife. The council says it is therefore taking an equitable approach to such requests. The Council are liaising with larger scale developers and land owners to work towards providing sustainably planned development.
It is not in the developers’ best interests to undertake pre-emptive felling as this will not expedite planning permission. Those at Waverley do not believe this is a practice associated with potential development sites of the size referred to that have been put forward for consideration. n.b. equitable means fair in law.
Waverley’s website about planning enforcement says:-
“What does not constitute a breach in planning?? ………
The following examples do not breach
planning control:
- vehicles parked on the road or on grass verges (unless this is associated with the unauthorised use of a property)
- running a small business from home
- clearing land of undergrowth, bushes or trees (not covered by a Tree Preservation Order)….”
However the removal of a hedgerow can be an offence under the Hedgerow Regulations 1997 (unless formal notification etc) but according to Waverley clearance of undergrowth, bushes or trees will not be (unless covered by a TPO) !
The concern about protection of trees, hedgerows and wildlife is not ours alone. Many local residents are greatly concerned. Unless protections are put in place, it takes only minutes to fell a tree (or indeed the trunk of a dead tree which is providing habitats for many species of wildlife and roosting places for birds) or to disturb hedgerows, even if the developers say they are working towards ‘sustainably planned development’. Replacement of old and ancient large trees with small saplings means the wildlife has no where to go whilst the trees are growing.
It has already been pointed out what the terrible results at Little Meadow -down Alfold Road near The One Stop have been. Magnificent large trees were felled and hedgerows ripped out to simply be replaced with ugly and non wildlife friendly boarded fences!!! They maybe easy to maintain but we believe they should NOT be allowed. The previously cited the offence under the Hedgerow Regulations 1997 is in place but
a. we gather that it is not an offence if appropriate notification is given – how do local residents know what is happening in this regard before it happens??? and
b. how would we know if the
developers merely say they are clearing undergrowth, bushes or trees (unless
covered by a TPO)
When chain saws start it is too late for us to do anything about it!!!
We need to protect existing trees and hedgerows!!! – please help us to pursuade Waverley planners to reconsider its position re imposition of TPO’s on the numerous trees which should be protected now that the planning application has indeed been made – WA/2018/2074- Cranleigh School’s application opposite Notcutts
” Land Centred Coordinates 504755 139827 East Side, Guildford Road, Surrey- Erection of 40 dwellings (including 14 affordable dwellings) with new vehicular accesses and associated works”
YOU CAN add your thoughts on Waverley’s website http://planning360.waverley.gov.uk/planning/
by admin | May 14, 2017 | Ancient Woodland, Berkeley Homes, Waverley Borough Council
It appears that Berkeley Homes are not content with the level of tree clearing they have already carried out for the access road to their site in Cranleigh, as they have now applied for the removal of a Tree Preservation Order, which protects the remaining ancient woodland. We say it’s a shame they got permission to remove so many trees, and how dare they put the remaining beautiful trees at risk!
The TPO was specifically put in place by Waverley Borough Council to prevent further removal of trees, so what possible reason could there be to remove it? Apparently it would be “a potential significant further barrier to delivery of the development”. Does that sound like they want to chop those trees down too? According to BH the TPO is unnecessary as there are already “measures in place” to protect the remaining trees.
Berkeley Homes say they are “committed to delivery of the Cranleigh development….to the benefit of the stakeholders!” Well, we knew it wasn’t the existing residents of Cranleigh.
Interestingly the penultimate paragraph in their letter threatens bad working relationship with WBC, delays in building, and additional costs for WBC and Berkeley Homes! Didn’t they notice the trees were there before? Ancient woodland doesn’t just appear overnight!
See item 8 OBJECTION TO TREE PRESERVATION ORDER (NO. 01/2017) – TREES ON LAND BETWEEN ALFOLD ROAD AND KNOWLE LANE, CRANLEIGH, via this link: https://modgov.waverley.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=148&MId=1874&Ver=4
You can read the full details including the letter from Berkeley Homes and the response from Waverley Borough Council here:
Berkeley Homes Objection to tree preservation
