Our Normandy Village - Glaziers Lane
Our Normandy Village - land near Pusseys Copse with Ancient Woodland
Our Normandy Village - view to the Hogs Back and Surrey Hills AONB
Our Normandy Village - St Marks Church, Wyke, 15th c.
Our Normandy Village - winter sunset
There are 27 core policies, then a further 57 policies defining actual sites.
If you intend to respond. remember to comment on the Policy statement in the blue box. If there a words that you think should be added, removed or changed in the Policy statement box, say what you would like and why.
If you responded to the previous consultation, that is immaterial, please respond again.
As the last round of consultation, YOU DO NOT NEED TO FILL IN AN ON_LINE QUESTIONNAIRE; PAPER QUESTIONNAIRES ARE AVAILABLE. IF YOU WISH, YOU CAN WRITE A LETTER BUT BE SPECIFIC AS TO WHAT POLICY YOU ARE REFERRING AND TO WHAT QUESTION IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE YOUR COMMENT RELATES. IF YOU ARE WRITING TO OBJECT TO SPECIFIC POLICIES OR SITES, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU START EACH WITH "I OBJECT" AND THEN STATE YOUR REASONS OTHERWISE YOUR RESPONSE WILL BE COUNTED AS NEITHER FOR NOR AGAINST AND IN SOME CASES WILL BE POSITIVELY REGARDED AS IN FAVOUR.
To view each policy and the NAG interpretation of these policies please click on the chosen item from the menu list to the right.
Strategic
Policy S1: Presumption in favour of sustainable development
Policy S2: Planning for the borough - our spatial development strategy
Housing
Policy H1: Homes for all
Policy H2: Affordable Homes
Policy H3: Rural Exception Homes
Protecting
Policy P1: Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
Policy P2: Green Belt
Policy P3: Countryside
Policy P4: Flood Risk
Policy P5: Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area
Economy
Policy E1: Meeting employment needs
Policy E2: Locations of new employment floorspace
Policy E3: Maintaining employment capacity and improving employment floorspace
Policy E4: Surrey Research Park
Policy E5: Rural Economy
Policy E6: The leisure and visitor experience
Policy E7: Guildford Town Centre
Policy E8: District and Local Centres
Policy E9: Local Centres
Design
Policy D1: Making better places
Policy D2: Sustainable design, construction and energy
Policy D3: Historic environment
Policy D4: Development in urban areas and inset villages
Infrastructure & Delivery
Policy I1: Infrastructure and delivery
Policy I2: Supporting the Department for Transport’s “Road Investment Strategy”
Policy I3: Sustainable transport for new developments
Policy I4: Green and blue infrastructure
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Bailes Lane: Temporary Article 4 Direction Made!
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.
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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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