December 2018 Waverley Friends of the Earth is a local group of FoE campaigning in Farnham, Haslemere, Godalming, Cranleigh and the places in between. There has been a local Friends of the Earth group in this area since at least the 1980s and we have a long and distinguished record of campaigning on local and
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17 October 2014 Following our objection with supporting report prepared by Wallingford Hydro (see previous post) the Environment Agency changed its position and lodged an objection with the Council against the Berkeleys Strategic application for the site on the grounds that safe access could not be guaranteed and the EA also expressed concern about the
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30 August 2014 Friends of the Earth have been concerned over the application by Berkeley’s Strategic to build 425 homes on an area prone to flooding in the centre of Cranleigh. (WA/2014/0912) Our concern is so strong that we commissioned an independent flood consultant Wallingford Hydro Solutions to examine the developer’s own Flood Risk Assessment
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4 March 2014 According to the Government “Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is a mature, proven technology and is a reliable source of renewable energy with an important role to play in the UK energy generation” and the Government is aiming for an ambitious 20 gigawatts of solar energy by 2020. However the Government forgot to
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3 January 2014 There are serious questions over whether a major housing development on the land being proposed by Berkeley Homes for its 400+ housing development at Cranleigh on the Greenfield land south of the High Street would be in compliance with the policy restricting development in flood prone areas contained in the National Planning Policy
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1 October 2013 There is renewed interest and discussion in the 2008 planning application so here is the award winning Eco-settlement masterplan. The same week in 2009 that the appeal was turned down by John Denham, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, this design won Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects the Francis Tibbalds Prize at the
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