Cranleigh Parish Council Have objected to the development of the West Cranleigh Nurseries saying that brownfield sites should be developed before green fields. In summary they also state that:
You can read the full objection here.
Please add your objection to this application full details listed here on our website.
We are disappointed to see yet another increase in the SHMA figure for Waverley to a minimum of 512 houses per annum.
Copy Of Strategic Housing Market Assessment December 2014 here.
The SHMA also highlights the large number of Cranleigh residents that commute daily to Guildford. With an estimated 30% increase in houses in Cranleigh, this would add thousands of cars to our rural road network from development here alone. Imagine what will happen to the bottlenecks in Shamley Green, Bramley and Shalford! Added to the gridlock will be a considerable increase in air pollution from standing traffic, here in Cranleigh High Street, as well as in Shalford and Bramley, this will be a very worrying health risk for all residents.
We are struggling to understand how such large numbers of houses can be dumped here when, as was confirmed by Surrey County Council at a recent public meeting in Cranleigh, there is no ‘Sustainable’ transport solution for Cranleigh. The truth is that Surrey County Council is looking to cut subsidies to rural bus services.
Surrey County Council’s ‘Cranleigh’s Future Highways and Infrastructure’ document, talks about ‘tweaking’ road junctions and adding in more buses to accommodate the increase in volume of commuters to Guildford and encouraging an increase in the uptake of cycling. This is against a backdrop of cuts to rural bus services and the reality of travelling along narrow country lanes. It’s over 9 miles to Guildford, the buses don’t go to the station and the roads simply aren’t safe for cyclists, this suggestion is a joke. The majority of Cranleigh residents have no alternative but to commute by car.
This is totally contrary to the heart of the concept of ‘sustainable development’, the ‘golden thread’ that is meant to run through the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). To quote the NPPF “ Sustainable development is about change for the better”. Dumping houses on land prone to flooding and grid locking the roads is unsustainable and unacceptable.
It is a scandal that Cranleigh has been handed on a plate to speculative developers when housing need is not even focused in this part of the borough. Waverley Borough Council’s Sustainability Appraisal recognises this and yet we are taking the largest dump of housing in the whole of the borough. Other areas in Waverley may be relieved at the moment but Waverley is setting a precedent for building on areas in flood zones 2 and 3 so that relief may be short lived!
This image shows why Green Field Sites to the South of Cranleigh High Street flood.
The West Cranleigh Nurseries site (Knowle Park Initiative) has the Littlemead Brook and the Nuthurst Stream converging to the East of the Site and this combined flow then runs along the Northern edge of the Nursery site with the main Cranleigh Waters (tributary of the River Wey) running to the West of the site.
You can still add your objection to the Knowle Park Initiative West Cranleigh Nurseries planning application and to the Little Meadow application.
Would you buy a house here in Cranleigh?
Always include your FULL name and postal address in any email correspondence to Councillors.
Cranleigh East:
Brian Freeston brianfcpc@gmail.com
Rowena Tyler
Richard Cole richardc@recole.plus.com
Kate Fernandes kate_fernandes@hotmail.co.uk
Cranleigh West:
Patricia Ellis patricia.ellis@waverley.gov.uk
Rosemary Burbridge roburbridge@aol.com
Matthew Hayward matt893969@hotmail.com
Steve Jeacock callsteve3@hotmail.co.uk
Cranleigh North:
Mary Foryszewski (Chair) pawfect@btinternet.com
Elmbridge:
Angela Richardson angelarichardson@live.co.uk
Cranleigh Rural:
Liz Townsend liz.yourcranleigh@gmail.com
Check the list of Cranleigh Parish Councillors here.
Cranleigh West –
Patricia Ellis patricia.ellis@waverley.gov.uk
Liz Townsend liz.townsend@waverley.gov.uk
Cranleigh East –
Mary Foryszewski mary.foryszewski@waverley.gov.uk
Stewart Stennett stewart.stennett@waverley.gov.uk
Jeanette Stennett jeanette.stennett@waverley.gov.uk
Shamley Green and Cranleigh North – Mike Band mike.band@waverley.gov.uk
Cranleigh Rural, Alfold and Ellens Green – Kevin Deanus kevin.deanus@waverley.gov.uk
Andrew Povey andrew.f.povey@surreycc.gov.uk
UPDATE 24 November 2016: After an invalid application under reference number WA/2016/2077 the new application number for KPI (now under the name of A2Dominion Developments Ltd) is WA/2016/2207. If you submitted a comment against this application under a previous number you will have to submit it yet again.
UPDATE 27 APRIL 2016: Knowle Park Initiative refused by Joint Planning Committee.
UPDATE 18 April 2016: Knowle Park Initiative application for 265 dwellings (West Cranleigh Nurseries) goes before the Joint Planning Committee on 27 April 2016 7pm, Waverley Borough Council Offices, The Burys, Godalming, public welcome.
UPDATE 26 August 2015: Knowle Park Initiative have submitted a NEW application almost identical to the last! This means that all our objections will have to be resubmitted. This is the Waverley Planning Portal link http://planning.waverley.gov.uk/live/wbc/pwl.nsf/(RefNoLU)/WA20151569?OpenDocument
UPDATE 9 July 2015: It is reported that The Knowle Park Initiative will be resubmitting their application! Date not yet available.
UPDATE 8 July 2015: The Knowle Park Initiative withdraw their current application!
UPDATE 22 January 2015: Objections to this application are still being accepted!
UPDATE 20 May 2015: Environment Agency Object to Knowle Park Initiative site
Please submit your objection to this application on Waverley Borough Council’s website, closing date was 5 January 2015 but still taking objections NOW! online planning portal ref WA/2014/2127
Please email a copy of your objections to the members of the Waverley Joint Planning Committee to let them know exactly what you feel. They will have the FINAL SAY on this application.
Click here for a list of the members’ email addresses
Or email the case officer Mrs H Hobbs direct on planconsult@waverley.gov.uk quoting ref WA/2014/2127 and give your FULL name and Postal Address.
Or write to Waverley Borough Council at (please quote ref WA/2014/2127 and give your FULL name and Postal Address):
Mrs H Hobbs
Planning Officer
Waverley Borough Council,
The Burys,
Godalming,
Surrey,
GU7 1HR
Always include your FULL name and postal address when writing or emailing.
If you want to raise any of the following points please do put them into your own words, as otherwise Waverley may not take them into account, thank you.
Some of the points you might like to mention are (please do not cut and paste these points, please do put them into your own words, as otherwise Waverley Planning Officers may deem them to be invalid):
Thank you for speaking up for Cranleigh.
My name is Richard Bryant and, as well as being a member of Cranleigh Civic Society, I am a Chartered Insurance Broker and, as such, I am actively campaigning against building on flood plains because of the serious flood insurance issues.
I have been urging the Joint Planning Committee at Waverley Borough Council to seriously consider the human aspect of flooding, not just the effect on roads and infrastructure.
To suffer surface water flooding is in some ways worse than having a fire in your home – fires are normally one off but there is always the genuine worry with flooding that it will reoccur.
There are very serious flood insurance implications for new people buying a house in Cranleigh on the sites proposed by Berkeley Homes, Knowle Park Initiative and Crest Nicholson.
The owners of houses built before 1 January 2009, and which are at the highest risk of flooding, will be helped to obtain flood cover, at an affordable cost, under a special arrangement set up by the Association of British Insurers and the Government called Flood Re.
However this arrangement DOES NOT apply to houses built after 1 January 2009 as, after that date, new houses should be located to avoid flood risk and to avoid increasing flood risk elsewhere in line with national planning policies..
Of course, this will not be mentioned by the developers in their sales brochures – there will be no warning given to prospective house buyers of the potential for flooding and the insurance implications of this.
Even if a house escapes flooding by a few inches, but neighbouring houses are under water, the owner of that undamaged house could well have problems at their next insurance renewal as, when the land next floods, that previously undamaged house may well succumb to flooding – it will be considered as high risk..
So when the purchaser of a new house suffers flooding – that is bad enough but they then face:
At the Cranleigh Parish Council meeting on 8 December not only did all the Councillors object to the Knowle Park Initiative outline planning application but they all cited flooding as their main concern.
Also, for the first time, they referred to the human aspect of suffering flooding. Also we were told that Waverley will, at long last, attach importance to Cranleigh’s flood history – for ages we have been telling them that statistics can be “manipulated” to serve any purpose but history is fact!
Councillors are now listening to what Cranleigh Civic Society are telling them on behalf of the Cranleigh Community!
Surface Water floods to the South of the High Street in Cranleigh because of the topography of the surrounding countryside and the geology of the soil; Weald Clay. This is why areas of The Maples – Berkeley Homes and the Knowle Park Initaitive – West Cranleigh Nurseries are particularly susceptible to floods.
Print off this poster and display it prominently in your window or front garden.
Waverley Borough Council needs to know that Cranleigh is saying NO to building on Greenfields that Flood.
This not only puts new residents at risk but also existing residents from water runoff from all these new houses.
Click on the image below and print off.
Republished article: objections can still be submitted as the planning application decision was deferred by Waverley Borough Council. It will now go before the Joint Planning Committee on 5 January 2015 at 7pm at Waverley Borough Council Offices, The Burys, Godalming.WE NEED AS MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE TO ATTEND
Submit your objection to this application on Waverley Borough Council’s before 5 January 2015 online planning portal ref WA/2014/0912
Please also email a copy of your objections to the members of the Waverley Joint Planning Committee to let them know exactly what you feel. They will have the FINAL SAY on this application.
Click here for a list of the members’ email addresses
Or email the case officer Mr Barry Lomax direct on planconsult@waverley.gov.uk please quote ref WA/2014/2127 and give your FULL name and Postal Address.
Or write to Waverley Borough Council at (please quote ref WA/2014/2127 and give your FULL name and Postal Address):
Mrs B Lomax
Planning Officer
Waverley Borough Council,
The Burys,
Godalming,
Surrey,
GU7 1HR
Always include your FULL name and postal address when writing or emailing.
If you want to raise any of the following comments in your objection please do put them into your own words, as otherwise Waverley may not take them into account, thank you.
Some of the points you might like to mention are (please do not cut and paste these points as that will make your email invalid ):
Thank you for speaking up for Cranleigh.
UPDATE This application was unanimously rejected by the Parish Council on 8 December will now go forward to Waverley’s Joint Planing Committee. You need to write/email members of this committee Ref WA/2014/2127. We will be publishing a list of objection points soon.
IMPORTANT– Cranleigh Parish Council will be considering the Knowle Park Initiative – West Cranleigh Nurseries application on Monday 8 Dec 7pm at Cranleigh Village Hall.
FIRST Please write to the Parish Councillors with your thoughts and put the 8 December 7pm in your diary – THEN PLEASE come to the meeting.
When you write to Cranleigh Parish Councillors ALWAYS include your FULL postal address in any correspondence so that they are able to reply.
List of Cranleigh Parish Councillors:
Cranleigh East: stewart.stennett@waverley.gov.uk ; brett.vorley@waverley.gov.uk ; richardc@recole.plus.com ; ruthcreed@gmail.com ; kenreed.cpc@gmail.com ; b.cheesman270@btinternet.com
Cranleigh West: brian.ellis@waverley.gov.uk ; patricia.ellis@waverley.gov.uk ; roburbridge@aol.com ; davidgill46@aol.com
Cranleigh North – mike.band@waverley.gov.uk
Elmbridge: RAW@cranleigh.org (Cllr Robert Wilson)
Cranleigh Rural: mary.foryszewski@waverley.gov.uk ; brian.arendell@hotmail.co.uk
Copy in:
Anne Milton MP anne.milton.mp@parliament.uk
Matthew Evans Head of Planning Services (Chief Planning Officer): matthew.evans@waverley.gov.uk
This was the Alfold Road after a short burst of rain on 23 November 2014, also the footpath behind the Nurseries and on the same day sewage coming up through the drain cover at Littlemead Industrial Estate; sent in by Local Residents:
