NAG News


At our Annual General Meeting on 29 October we discussed the potential implications of the huge increase in Guildford Borough's housing target should the proposals featuring in the Government's recent consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework be adopted. You can read the Agenda, Chair's Report, and Draft Minutes of the AGM, in the attachments below.

In its Election Manifesto the Labour Party announced its commitment to “Planning reform to build 1.5 million new homes” by, among other things, reforming the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which serves as the rule book for Local Planning Authorities (LPAs), such as Guildford Borough Council (GBC). On 30 July the Labour Government launched a public consultation on an amended NPPF, which runs until 24 September.

On 18 April, following numerous representations from members of the public, Normandy Parish Council, and Normandy's Borough Councillors, Guildford Borough Council (GBC) officers acting under their delegated powers issued an Article 4 Direction regarding the agricultural land lying to the west of Bailes Lane, Normandy, GU3 2BA.

‘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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