The Cranleigh Society is barely 4 months old and yet it has achieved so much in that short time!
Initially set up with 9 residents from the Neighbourhood Plan Housing Group we have quickly become an important part of the Cranleigh community.
We are encouraged by the growing number of people supporting us, including our MP Anne Milton and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all.
We are committed to unearthing the facts and keeping our community informed.
Since setting up the civic society on 9 October 2014, with your support, we have had some amazing successes. We have been a key contributor in:
- Bringing Cranleigh’s flood risk and rural road infrastructure to the attention of our Borough Councillors, our County Councillor Alan Young and our MP Anne Milton.
- Getting the Berkeley Homes, The Maples, application; by far the largest in the whole borough of Waverley deferred and then rejected by the joint Planning Committee at Waverley.
- The Crest Nicholson decision to get an independent drainage assessment on their site The Chantries, on the Horsham Road, investigating amongst other things if this will increase flood risk to neighbouring properties.
- Highlighting the real facts about insurance cover in areas at high risk of flooding.
- Promoting a proportionate share of the total Waverley housing allocation on brownfield sites in Cranleigh first and fighting overwhelming and inappropriate development on our green fields.
In addition to this we have set up our website, Facebook and Twitter accounts (Pinterest is next for publishing all our local flood photos).
The coming months will continue to be a very busy time for us and are really looking forward to seeing you all at our meeting on Thursday 19th Feb in the Band Room at 7pm.
