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MVDC Draft Local Pla lan Consultation.

11th March 2020 – 8.00 pm

Public Meeting hosted by Bookhams Residents’ Association

Peter Seaward

Chairman Bookhams Residents’ Association

Agenda

Where are we now:

• Introduction
• Greenbelt and Housing Allocation
• Education
• Health
• Drainage
• Roads
• Completing the Consultation
• Questions

The Bookhams Residents’ Association position on the Draft Local Plan is to oppose all development on Green Belt sites.

Bob Lennox

The Green Belt and Housing Allocation

Housing Allocation in Mole Valley

• Government calculations tell Mole Valley District Council

(MVDC) to deliver:

• 449 dwellings per annum
• 6,735 dwellings over the 15-year period to 2033
• MVDC have so far identified or committed sites for about

4,500 homes, leaving a shortfall of circa 2,200 to be built on the Green Belt

• BUT there may be enough Brownfield sites for the first 10

years of the plan!

Housing Allocation in Mole Valley

Alternatives:

Go Up!

• Intensify development in town centres on brownfield sites
• Build flats apartments which young people can afford near to

employment and transport hubs – truly sustainable and low environmental impact. Go South!

• There is a big potential urban area near to Gatwick with superb

transport and infrastructure.

Housing Allocation in Mole Valley

• The BRA calculate Bookham is required to deliver:
• 56 new homes per year
• 850 over 15 years
• Infills will deliver about 400 leaving 450 to be built on Green Belt land
• Massive concentration proposed in Bookham + Effingham, nearly 800

houses on Green Belt land in a tiny area

• Bookham would be taking nearly 20% of the total Green Belt development

across the whole of the MVDC …with no planned increase in infrastructure!

Bookham Greenbelt sites

Merging, Sprawl, Encroachment

Encroachment Sprawl Merging

Green Belt Review: The Issues

Julia Dickinson

Education Planning Team Bookhams Residents’ Association

Education

• With 800+ houses this will affect primary school places and The

Howard catchment for Bookham Children.

• Questions are being raised with the Surrey County Council School

Place Team addressing questions on:

• Capacity in existing schools
• Will the build phase match the five year cycle
• No places in nearest alternative schools
• Will the HoE be even be open by Autumn 2022? If so how certain is timing

and capacity.

Health

Eastwick Medical Practice Currently registered: 8011 patients Fairfield Medical Centre Currently registered: 10,600 patients Fetcham Medical Centre Currently registered: 5,000 patients

Total registered patients: 23,611

Catchment area with a current population

• Bookham 11,900
• Effingham 3,000
• Fetcham 8,500

Total 23,300

Health

Michael Agius

Vice Chairman and Infrastructure Lead Bookhams Residents’ Association

Drainage Update

BRA still await a reply from Thames Water's Asset Manager on whether the foul drainage down Little Bookham Street would have sufficient capacity to take another 450 houses.

Highways Update

• BRA visited SCC Highways on 5th March to discuss the Strategic

Highways Assessment attached to the draft Local Plan.

• It is now apparent that this is based on a very high level strategic
• verview. It takes no particular regard of the detailed access designs

for each major greenfield site onto the A246 or Lower Road. This will

• nly happen at the next, Regulation 19, stage.

Bob Lennox

Responding to the Draft Local Plan Consultation

Consultation questionnaire

Consultation questionnaire

Three questions:

• Q1. Do you agree with our ‘brownfield first’

approach? Yes?

• Q2. Do you agree with how we have tried to make

efficient use of ‘brownfield land’? No?

• Q3. Do you agree with the use of a ‘small amount of

undeveloped, greenfield land’ ie. are you OK for us to build houses on the Green Belt? No?

Important points to note

• Everyone over the age of 18 in a household can respond –

numbers of responses count!

• Answers must be received by Mole Valley by 23rd March
• NB. Complete online responses cannot be reviewed before you

submit

Resources

• www.yourbookham.com (BRA in cooperation with iliveinbookham.com)
• www.bookhamresidents.org.uk
• localplan@bookhamresidents.org.uk
• BRA message line: 0300 030 9890

Bookham Library – print copy of the Draft Local Plan and paper response forms Wishing Well - paper response forms

Open floor discussion

Public Meeting hosted by Bookhams Residents’ Association