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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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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19 May 2013 Thanks to local group member Patrick Haveron for alerting us to this proposal for a massive solar farm at Eashing. The so called ‘consultation’ was probably the poorest consultation for a major planning application that I have attended in recent years. The publicity was appalling (it was only thanks to twitter that Patrick
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19 March 2012 Oh dear! We always thought that the emerging local planning policy for Waverley, the Core Strategy, was going to struggle to get through its examination by a government appointed planning inspector but it looks like it could be even worse than we expected. It has just emerged that Waverley has been in
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8 February 2013 If you want an example of why brownfield first as a planning policy doesn’t always work, look no further than the proposed development for 104 new houses on the redundant land surrounding the (still open) Milford Hospital just south of Godalming. 40% of this housing is to be affordable housing. The hospital was
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