Housing development plans submitted
PLANS for a 24-home housing development in Surrey north of the A31 near Ash have been submitted to Guildford Borough Council.
However, this is the third time a similar application has been submitted for the area, according to documents - though the circumstances at the site are said to have changed. If approved, the new application promises 40 per cent of new homes (9) will constitute affordable housing. Of these, there will be a range of one-bedroom (2), two-bedroom (3), and threebedroom (4) homes. There will also be 15 market housing properties that will range from two to four or more bedrooms.
The application - made on behalf of Bourne Homes - suggests housing could be “deliverable on the site within two years”. Developers described: “The proposed development is designed to be a sustainable and deliverable scheme set within the revised development boundary of Ash that responds to the local context, helps to meet local community housing needs and addresses the full range of environmental impacts of the development.”
They also claimed: “A new sustainable housing development in this location will provide an opportunity for both young people and families to live and work in the local area and ensure that people of all ages have the accessibility and choice of a good standard of housing.” A key objective highlighted was that there would be “a soft landscaped transitional buffer between ‘our neighbours’ on
Harpers Road and the denser housing”.
Plans suggest there will be 52 car parking spaces, 42 cycle spaces, and a “network of pedestrian and cycle routes through the site”. Developers said: “The underlying principles of the landscape strategy is to retain, enhance and manage the wooded area in the centre of the site.” The proposed location is currently defined as a residential house and garden, woodland, mixed scrub and grassland across a 1.26-hectare area.
Developers pointed out that the site has been subject to two previous applications - one for a 24-house development and the other for 22 homes. They said, however, there have been “material changes in circumstance affecting the site since”.