Building over our greatest assets
GBC’s pro develop Draft Plan extends to the countryside in our Borough (a concreted over landscape).
The rural areas around the Borough are highly valued by residents, dog walkers, visitors, ramblers, cyclists for leisure and competitions, and horse riders.
GBC acknowledges the importance of tourism and leisure within the Borough but again favours development over the protection of the Borough’s greatest asset the rural countryside and wildlife, The North Downs, Hog’s Back AONBs, LGVs, SPA, SSSIs and the THBSPA.
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‘Limited Infilling’ in Normandy and Flexford
‘Limited Infilling’ is increasingly used by planning officers as a justification when approving applications in Normandy/Flexford, even where the site is outside the settlement area identified in the Local Plan and is therefore in the Green Belt. (It is worth recalling in this context that the Local Plan removed Normandy and Flexford, along with several other settlements, from the Green Belt, making then ‘inset’, rather than ‘washed over’; this meant that development within the settlement area would not need to accord with Green Belt policy.) We therefore thought it would be helpful to take a closer look at this concept of ‘limited infilling’ in the Green Belt.
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Report from 2023 NAG AGM
Our AGM took place on 31st October; the draft Minutes are attached. We discussed the unsatisfactory situation regarding the enforcement of local planning regulations, assisted by Councillor George Potter, the Lead Councillor for Planning at Guildford Borough Council (GBC).
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