You may also visit the Guildford Borough Council centre at 25 Swan Lane, Guildford to see and discuss the plans. There is a questionnaire for submission BEFORE 5pm on November 29th. You may also request your copy of the questionnaire by email from : planningpolicy@guildford.gov.uk
The Wood Street Village Association needs to submit a response to GBC by 5.00 pm on the 29th November to the Local Plan Issues and Options Questionnaire.
The Local Plan is on the Parish Council’s agenda of the extraordinary meeting being held on Monday 18th November.
-- Edited by WSV on Monday 18th of November 2013 05:01:44 PM
Members of the Worplesdon Parish Council are hereby summoned to attend an Extra-ordinary meeting of the Worplesdon Parish Council to be held in the CONFERENCE ROOM, Worplesdon Memorial Hall, Perry Hill, Worplesdon, GU3 3RF on Monday 18 November 2013 at 7.30pm for the purpose of transacting the following business.
THE FIRST TEN MINUTES ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC TO EXPRESS A VIEW OR ASK A QUESTION ON RELEVANT MATTERS ON THE FOLLOWING AGENDA. THE PUBLIC ARE WELCOME TO STAY AND OBSERVE THE REST OF THE MEETING.
AGENDA
1.To accept apologies and reason for Absence in accordance with the LGA 1972, Sch12, para 40.
2. Declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests by Councillors on any of the agenda items below in accordance
with The Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012. (SI 2012 No. 1464)
3.Declaration of Non-pecuniary interests in accordance with the Council’s Code of Conduct.
4.Proposed play area for Wood Street Village Green – S38 application (date of public inquiry set for 1-3 July
2014) – To decide action in light of strenuous objections from local residents and the results of the recent traffic
survey.
5.Local Plan Strategy and Sites Issues and Options consultation – To consider/approve the proposed responses to the questionnaire. Deadline for responses 29 November 2013.
6.To safeguard public funds – To reconsider the decision to invest in the CCLA in light of the terms and conditions received and to consider opening a one year bond with the TSB (interest rate @ 1.8%).
7.Consent requested for two new additional land drains – Wood Street Village Cricket Club car park – To grant consent in accordance with the requirements of the current lease.
Pewley district has posted the following for their local area. Perhaps WSV should be considering similar templates?
CLEARLY THESE SUBMISSIONS RELATE TO PEWLEY AND ARE ONLY SUBMITTED AS SUGGESTIONS - EVERYTHING WILL NEED TO BE CHANGED FOR WOOD STREET VILLAGE PLANNING PROPOSALS
Subject: URGENT objection to planning: re 13/P/01453 Conversion of Farming Land to "SANG"
Please see my email below.
If you have not already done so, I urge all residents to register an objection to GBC Planning Application 13/P/01453
I have done so, and the email below is self-explanatory. Ideally by tomorow, Friday 24th December. But if not, do still send your email, saying that as the technical closing date for comments was 25th December you want to ensure your views are logged at GBC.
Guildford Borough Council's Planning Department do need to receive as many objections as possible, otherwise approval for this "SANG" (see below) could be the mechanism that facilitates large scale house building within 5km of Wood Street Village. You have been warned!
I am Keith Witham, Surrey County Councillor for the Worplesdon Division. Please record this STRONG OBJECTION to the above proposal.
If this application by the landowner for Russell Place Farm, Wood Street Village to be converted into "SANG" (Suitable Alternative Green Space) is approved by Guildford Borough Council it could be used to justify the building of a huge number of new homes at sites anywhere across Fairlands, Normandy, Liddington Hall, and Keens Lane and also help towards the removal of any so called "safeguarded" land in from the green belt for further future housing developments.
There is no justification to change farmland in Frog Grove Lane, Wood Street Village into a SANG other than being a device to allow house building close to a Special Protected Area (Whitmoor Common). Even Natural England have also queried whether it would actually work!
I have consulted Officers at Surrey County Council and this is the first example they are aware of, of a Commercial SANG.
In essence, the land will be more valuable for sale as a "SANG" than as agricultural land. So the landowner will be able to then sell the "SANG" to the highest-bidding property developer for that developer to offset building homes elsewhere nearby, including in the currently protected greenbelt. There are 34.5 hectares at Russell Place Farm which could faciltate 1,800 new homes in the Greenbelt within a 5 km radius.
So just to be clear, if this is approved by GBC, the owner of Russell Place Farm will effectively control any local residential development which requires, but does not have, a "SANG" to support an application, and will be able to offer, at a cost, that SANGS capacity for prospective local development sites.
If successful this application will significantly increase the risk of Greenbelt land being built on, which I strongly oppose. I urge Guildford Borough Council to REJECT this application.
Keith Witham
County Councillor
Worplesdon Division
