THE jury may still be out on plans to build 1,800 new homes at Dunsfold Park but its airfield is identified as “appropriate” for at least 2,600 houses in Waverley’s updated brownfield sites register.

A final decision on Dunsfold’s outline “master plan” after September’s planning inquiry, is due to be made by January 18.

Dunsfold Park did not appear at all in Waverley’s last brownfield register, which listed 36 sites that could yield 902 houses.

This year, it heads the list, underlining its new key role in the draft local plan’s target of 10,000 new homes by 2032.

The register encourages the re-use of brownfield sites or “previously developed land” as defined by the National Planning Policy Framework and is intended to speed up the planning process for such sites.

It focuses on the redevelopment of sites for residential use but includes other uses, such as offices and retail, provided they support a residential element.

Waverley has published the first part of its register, which identifies all the brownfield sites it has assessed as appropriate for residential development.

The list includes sites which already have been granted full and outline planning permission, as well as permission in principle, as well as sites without any approval from the local authority.

Part two will whittle down those sites Waverley deems as suitable to grant of permission in principle for residential development.

In Haslemere, Wey Hill is identified as appropriate for 70 new homes – 39 on the disused site at nos. 5-21 and 31 at the Youth Campus opposite.

In Hindhead, 30 houses could be built oipposite The Devil’s Punchbowl Hotel in Hindhead.

Witley’s Wheeler Street Nurseries is listed for up to 15 new homes with up to 10 at Franklin Court, Brook Road, Wormley, and up to five at Hambledon House farm buildings in Vann Lane, Chiddingfold.