THE timetable for determining Dunsfold Park’s application to build 1,800 houses has officially slipped by a couple of months.
Waverley’s joint planning committee is now due to meet in August to decide whether to approve or refuse the plan for the borough’s largest brownfield site to help meet increased government housing targets.
A Waverley spokesman said: “Following requests for further information from a number of statutory consultees, including Surrey County Council, the Environment Agency and Natural England, Waverley’s planning team have asked the applicants to prepare an addendum document to support their current application on matters such as highways, sustainable transport, landscape visual impact, ecology, flooding and affordable housing.
“As such the timetable for determining the application has been adjusted to allow the applicants to prepare the information required and to allow for a further consultation period.
“The consultation is to allow all the current responders, approximately 1,500, the opportunity to comment on the new information being submitted.
“Once the report from the applicants has been received and the 21-day consultation period has taken place officers will prepare the report. This will then be published in advance of the joint planning committee meeting which will consider the application.
This is likely to be in August.”
Highways concerns were raised by a group of 11 parish councils, in May, following publication of the expert traffic review they had commissioned from Haslemere-based Vision Transport Planning (VTP).
The group, which includes the villages of Chiddingfold, Hambledon, Dunsfold, Alfold, Bramley, Busbridge, Loxwood, Hascombe, Rudgwick, Shalford, and Wonersh, said: “The VTP report and Mott Macdonald report commissioned by Waverley, raise enough serious concerns about the un-assessed traffic impacts on the wider network that there is now an urgent need to carry out traffic modelling using a more comprehensive network, on a wider study area and including all minor roads.”