Our Normandy Village - Once its gone, its gone for good
Our Normandy Village - land near Pusseys Copse with Ancient Woodland
Our Normandy Village - view to the Surrey Hills National Landscape
Our Normandy Village - St Marks Church, Wyke, 15th c.
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SHMA is no justification
The Draft Plan’s proposed ‘growth’ is based on a document called the SHMA. The SHMA is the evidence base which GBC housing targets are based on. The report’s statistics are distorted by large student numbers from Guildford University and has disproportionately increased the ‘need’ for houses. The Office for National Statistics
(ONS) downgraded Guildford’s population growth. The confidential commercial model used to calculate the SHMA numbers cannot be checked (because GBC do not hold the model), it has been taken on trust, this is not satisfactory to some councillors. On the 24 May, some Councillors raised these concerns regarding the SHMA produced by G L Hearn, (the most critical piece of evidence in the Draft Local Plan) but the majority vote indicated that the full council meeting was satisfied that the SHMA was ‘a professional document’!