AN APPLICATION to put up ‘hedgerow’ hoardings to protect the former Haslemere Prep School site from vandalism, have triggered objections.

The proposals are for flat-sided hoardings at least 2.4 metres high, as they are “more difficult to climb than fencing and prevent viewing of the site interior”.

They would be erected along the Hill Road frontage and a short stretch of the frontage on Old Haslemere Road, with three access gates. Instead of standard construction style hoardings, they would have a “pleasing green hedgerow effect”.

Residents voicing their obejctions at Haslemere Town Council planning committee, welcomed the security precaution, but objected the hoardings would be erected outside the site, rather than within.

The town council agreed to recommend Waverley Borough Council reject the plan on the grounds the proposed hoardings were “too intrusive on the street scene” and the application was unnecessary, because the developers had not received planning consent for any application submitted for the site.