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MVDC Draft Local Pla lan Consultation.

13th February 2020 – 8.00 pm

Public Meeting hosted by Bookhams Residents’ Association

Peter Seaward Chairman Bookhams Residents’ Association

Agenda

 Explain the Plan  Highlight Key Problems  Questions and Feedback

• New plan needed every 15 years
• Covers 2018 – 2033
• Last plan had 188 dwelling growth each year
• This plan has 449 dwellings each year

Up to 850 new dwellings:

• Green belt – 435
• Infill – 350 - 500?

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Policies Map http://futuremolevalley.org/policiesmap/

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Five sites identified in Bookham:

Site 1 – Preston Farm Site 2 – Bookham Fields Site 3 – Maddox Park Site 4 – Chalk Pit Lane Site 5 – Lower Shott

Map credit: Richard Davey

Site 1- Preston Farm

Draft Local Plan describes:

• 250 new houses + 2 new traveller

pitches (approx. 600-700 people) About the site:

• Greenbelt, extending for several

miles onto Bookham Common & across Effingham Common

• Overlaps with Little Bookham

Conservation Area

• Flooding area
• Site exit onto Lower Road
• 250 metres from Howard of

Effingham

• Will extend current 29 dwellings

already built and sit beside 295 – 350 new houses at current Howard site

• 1 mile from Bookham train

station, 2.4 miles from Effingham Junction train station.

Map credit: Richard Davey

Site 2 – Bookham Fields

Draft Local Plan describes:

• 164 new houses + 2 traveller

pitches (approx. 400-450 people) About the site:

• Greenbelt, standing alone but

divided by Leatherhead Road from several miles of further greenbelt

• Site boxed in-between Lower

Road, the Lorne, Rectory Lane and Leatherhead Road

• Borders urbanisation along the

Lorne and Lower Road

• Site exit onto Guildford Road
• 1.1 mile from Bookham train

station, 2.6 miles from Effingham Junction train station

Map credit: Richard Davey

Site 3 – Maddox Park

Draft Local Plan describes:

• 5 serviced residential

(approx. 10-15 people) About the site:

• Greenbelt, extending for

several miles onto Bookham Common & across Effingham Common

• Site among Maddox

development and 200 metres from Little Bookham Street

• Site exit onto Maddox

Park

• 300 metres from

Bookham Common

• 600 metres from

Bookham Station

Site 4 – Chalkpit Lane

Draft Local Plan describes:

• 11 dwellings (approx. 25 – 30

people) About the site:

• Greenbelt, extending for

several miles onto an area of AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) then onto the North Downs

• Site sit besides Leatherhead /

Guildford Road, which would be main exit

• Next door to Chalkpit Farm &

Dobbe’s Garden Centre

• 700 metres to Bookham High

Street & 1,3 miles to Bookham Station & Common

Site 5 - Lower Shott

Draft Local Plan describes:

• Retail and/or healthcare/community

floorspace plus 5 (net) dwellings About the site:

• Shall retain a car park as part of the

site

• May force existing businesses to

relocate

Draft Local Plan Impact on:

• Education
• Roads
• Drainage
• Health
• Retail
• Ecology

David Cox Education Lead Bookhams Residents Association

Potential Housing impact 2018 -33

School places for “The Bookhams”

Lit Little le Boo Bookham & Grea eat Bo Bookham

Surrey County Council - Pupil Yield Factors Per 2+ bedrooms dwellings PRIMARY = 0.25 SECONDARY = 0.18

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PRIMARY

New Dwellings (incl estimated Infill) 2018 – 2033

• Bookhams

a) 800 (GB 435 + Infill 350) = 267 dwellings per 5 year cycle. b) 935 (GB 435 + Infill 500) = 312 “

• School cycles are in 5 – 7 years
• Additional places

a) 267 houses x .25 (PYF) = 67 b) 312 “ = 78

Where will these additional places come from ??

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PRIMARY: Potentia ial mit itig igation fact ctors & is issues

• Create some additional capacity in existing schools ?

How much is there ? At expense of the attached nursery schools ? What extra build capacity is there at the local Infant / Junior schools ? Many are Academies.

• Low birth years at present –

Not throughout full period & impact of new families uncertain

• Shift non local children east towards any additional capacity in Leatherhead i.e a

new school? Will there be spare capacity ? - 134 additional places needed for GB sites in L’head. West – Effingham & Horsley extra homes = 70+ extra places. No capacity.

• Will the build phasing match the 5 year cycle ? Unlikely so there will be spikes for

which there may not be the matching resources

• Will the densification concentration make things even worse ?

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SECONDARY: New dwellings - 2018 -33 -HoE catchment area

Location

Est Total 5 yr phasing Add’l places Priority ranking for places

• Bookhams

a) 800

267 48 5

(incl Infill) b) 935

312 56

• Horsleys

500 167 30 1

(excl infill)

• Ockham

60 11 4 2

(excl infill)

• Effingham

300 100 18 3

(excl infill)

• OTHER

? ?

+ 4

TOTALs

1710 + 590+ 108 + 103 + 52 - PRIORITY over Bookhams children who can walk & cycle to HoE

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The new HoE school: Oct 2022?

• The proposed new HoE school is due to be completed for Autumn term 2022
• The PAN (Pupil Admissions Number) will be increased by 60 from 240 to 300.

This equates to 2 x forms of entry.

• This means the school will have an additional 300 standard secondary places

across the whole education cycle i.e additional 60 Pan x 5 =300 i.e increase from 1600 to 1900 places.

• The catchment area will be reviewed before the opening of the new school.

May increase in size but will NOT include Wisley.

• Up to 75% of the current school comes from the Bookhams. BRA have recently

facilitated a meeting between MVDC & HoE. If new school delayed or does not happen = insufficient places: Tie break of Nearest Alternative School (regardless if places available) – k/a NAS

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Priority over the Bookhams for HoE

48 48 – 56 addit itio ional l pla laces No new or r dela layed sc school

Priority order under NAS 1. Horsleys 30 2. Ockham 4 3. Effingham 6 (excl enabling dev for new school say

100)

TOTAL

40 More places than existing school has capacity for catchment. 10 in 2019 -20. Birth rate years rise not included. Priority 1 could consume the remaining capacity at the school thus excluding all other priorities.

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Nearest alternative school (NAS) Therfield in Leatherhead

Impact on Therfield capacity from Green belt sites excluding Infill:-

Dwellings 5 yr phasing = net School places

Ashtead 500 30 Fetcham 55 3 L’ head 1600 97 Total 130 (4.3 new FFE ?)

Utilises all planned extra Secondary places in North Mole Valley ? The Bookhams children have a lower priority than all these locations as further away from Therfield where TIE BREAK is Distance from the school

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Factors & issues to consider

• Therfield is an Academy so is independent of SCC– will there be

enough capacity if they agree to expand? Unlikely

• If no new HoE School or delayed (moth ball threat) what happens to

the Bookham villages? Children denied places at school to which they can walk & cycle. If no places at Therfield - find schools elsewhere within 1 hour coach

• journey. Carbon neutral to carbon positive.
• Will HoE change the Admissions tie break of NAS and / or can this

be challenged as SCC admit to problems administering it. OSA – BRA appealed re NAS TWICE and appeal refused.

• Will the phasing match the 5 year cycle ? Unlikely so there will be

spikes for which there may not be the matching resources

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• Wisley development is on border of catchment – if delays to

proposed school in that location - where do those children go?

• HoE will try to find ways of not denying places to the Bookham

Villages if it can, especially in the short term.

• New HoE school will resolve the concerns & issue ONCE built as

long as densification is not worse than outlined but development has wider impacts in terms of non education matters.

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Factors & issues to consider (2)

Key issues are:

Are these figures less than reality due to the intended burden

• f densification falling on North Mole Valley ?

Infant / Primary

• Where will the extra 67 – 78 places come from ?
• What are MVDC figures & basis of calculation ?
• What is MVDC doing about it in the draft plan ?
• Secondary
• Will the new HoE school be built in time to avert our children

being bussed elsewhere ?

• MVDC needs to engage with HoE re impact on secondary places

around the Bookhams prior to catchment review.

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Michael Agius Vice Chairman and Infrastructure Lead Bookhams Residents’ Association

Brownfield Infill

350 +/- additional dwellings in Bookham will accentuate the highway and drainage problems already experienced on an ageing network.

• The A246, Lower Road and South/North roads are already overloaded.

Extra 700 +/- cars will only add to this.

• The A246/Crabtree Lane traffic lights are already identified as a ‘hotspot’.
• Between Young Street roundabout and Effingham traffic lights a series of

pedestrian traffic lights and ever increasing side road junctions already cause major rush hour delays. This is only going to worsen with increased local traffic.

• Drainage all flows south to north and is likely to aggravate problems

experienced north of the A246 and Lower Road towards Bookham

• Common. Runoff from additional houses will only worsen the situation.

Greenfield Sites - Highways

There are three Greenfield sites to the west of the village in Little Bookham:

• Preston Farm, north of Lower Road, with 250 houses
• Bookham Fields, north of the A246 and west of The Lorne, with 165 houses
• Chalkpit Lane, south of the A246 opposite Rectory Lane, with 11 houses.

Five traffic model scenarios have been created. These include :

• Scenario A: Do Nothing. This scenario includes committed developments
• Scenario E: This contains all the developments apart from Preston Farm and

North of Guildford Road Question – why was Scenario E considered?

Traffic Modelling

How accurate is the traffic modelling? Has Lower Road been modelled? The routeing of vehicles to and from the Bookham Fields site is shown in Figure 2-11 and Preston Farm Figure 2-12. Within 3 miles between the Young Street roundabout and the Effingham traffic lights the A246 is tightly constricted by:

• numerous new side roads
• by the Crabtree Lane traffic lights;
• by the High Street pedestrian lights;
• by the pedestrian lights at Dawnay School;
• by the well used turn offs to The Lorne and Groveside;
• by Rectory Lane used to access The Grange, Gracewell Care Homeand The Howard of Effingham School;
• by Manor House Lane used to access Manor House School and The Howard School;
• by the Effingham traffic lights used to gain access to St Teresa’s School, Effingham Junction Station and the

A3.

Greenfield Sites - Drainage

• As well as drainage from the Preston Farm and Bookham Fields

developments, we may have to contend with drainage from The Howard School redevelopment flowing to Water Lane and Little Bookham Street which already have problems.

• We have a great concern that the existing system down Little Bookham

Street will not have the capacity to take the extra 426 houses plus The Howard:

• Preston Farm - 250
• Bookham Fields – 165
• Chalkpit Lane – 11

We have written to Thames Water to express our concerns and ask them if they have checked the capacity of their network recently.

Geoff Tranter Strategic Planning Lead Bookhams Residents’ Association

Health

Eastwick Medical Practice Currently registered: 7,800 patients Fairfield Medical Centre Currently registered: 8,000 patients Fetcham Medical Centre Currently registered: 5,000 patients

Total registered patients: 20,800

Catchment area with a current population

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

Total 23,300

Proposed Development (including estimated infill)

Bookhams

• Bookham: 435 + ongoing Infilled 350 - 500 dwellings

Plus Fetcham & Effingham

• Fetcham 55
• Effingham 355

Number of additional Doctors places required will be 3100

Bookham Village Centre and Shopping

Keith Whale

Alternatives?

• New garden town
• Reject New Village – West Bookham
• Accept greater density

2000 More people 2000 More cars

Les Huett Publicity Bookhams Residents’ Association

• Post Card delivered to

all dwellings in the district.

• Email notification if

you subscribe to MVDC updates

MVDC Consultation Process

• Runs until 23rd March – five and a half weeks to go…
• Online at futuremolevalley.org
• Print copies in Bookham Library
• Print and email submission options

To be aware of…

• There a lot sections and you can’t “save” and come back later so

needs to be completed in one session.

• Possible to complete on a mobile but might be better to use a

laptop/desktop.

• Don’t use browser back button – use the “previous” button. If you

don’t you will lose all the comments you have submitted.

• The next/previous buttons are at the bottom of the screen so you will

need to scroll down.

• The plan is 209 pages long

futuremolevalley.org

Plan is 209 pages long. Bookham pages: 104 - 109

• Complete personal

information

• Select “Next” at the

bottom of the page.

• Select tick boxes in

“Our Approach”

Right click: “Open in new window” rather than “Open in new tab”

This is the draft Local Plan –

• document. Not the on line

consultation. Click on “Task view” to see all

• pen windows

Right click on one of the windows. Clicking on “Snap Right” will place

• ne window on the right. Then click
• n the second window and it expand
• n the left.

With two windows open you can view the Draft Local Plan and Consultation independently.

You may complete as many sections as you see fit. Once completed you will be able to submit your response

Paper Form / Microsoft Word Format

MVDC Reference Docs

http://www.molevalley.gov.uk/media/pdf/6/i/Item_3_-_Future_Mole_Valley___consultation_on_draft_Local_Plan_.pdf

• Read Agenda CAB3 -12
• Chapter 1 intro page 10-12
• Chapter 3 Housing Page 24-33
• Chapter 6 Infrastructure page 81 - 90
• Site Allocation for Bookham Page 104 - 109
• Annex 2 List of Evidence Documents CAB13

Green Belt Review

• www.futuremolevalley.org/more-detail

Proposals Map

• http://www.molevalley.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=17340.

MV Development Opportunities

• http://www.molevalley.gov.uk/media/pdf/d/2/Development_Opportunities_in_Sustainable_Locations.pdf

Policies Map

• http://futuremolevalley.org/policiesmap/

Follow Up Dates

Saturday 22nd February and 7th March 9.30 am to 12.30 pm

• BRA pop up stand on the High Street at The Old Crown

Wednesday 4th March

• MVDC Exhibition – Old Barn Hall – 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm

Wednesday 11th March

• BRA Public Meeting – Report Back - Old Barn Hall 7.30 pm to 9.30

pm Monday 23rd March

• Consultation closes

• www.bookhamresidents.org.uk
• localplan@bookhamresidents.org.uk
• BRA message line: 0300 030 9890
• Iliveinbookham.com

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