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NAG News Archive 2020
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GBC has refused an application [20/P/00113] for a Certificate of Lawfulness for the sinking of a borehole by the owner of one of the plots in the AGLV part of the larger field at Wanborough Fields.
Such a Certificate would have meant the applicant did not need to apply for planning permission. We now wait to see whether planning permission is sought.
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Following the rejection by the judge of the three requests for Judicial Review against the Guildford Local Plan, two of the three claimants (Compton Parish Council and Jules Cranwell) have decided not to take matters any further, while the third (Ockham Parish Council) decided to mount an Appeal but found their case rejected.
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NAG has asked GBC whether further guidance will be forthcoming on the design policies to be applied in settlements that are ‘inset’, as we believe it would be helpful for local residents to have clear guidance as to what is and what is not likely to be acceptable.
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GBC refused the retrospective planning application 19/P/02128 to fence the plot on the AONB section of Wanborough Fields, so presumably in the absence of an Appeal it now needs to come down. Thirty-two residents made comments, all strongly objecting to it.
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This is not strictly speaking a planning matter, but as it is relevant to local quality of life we thought it worth drawing to your attention. It concerns a research proposal from the University of Surrey that intends to undertake a study into the effects of different vegetation and leaf types on roadside air pollutant removal.