It has been confirmed that a request for a ‘call in’ has been made to the Secretary of State for the Dunsfold Park planning application for 1,800 dwellings.
Anyone can request for an application to be called in. IF this call in is successful this means that the Secretary of State will take the decision-making power on this planning application out of the hands of Waverley Borough Council as the local planning authority and he will decide whether it should be granted or refused.
‘Calling in’ can be done at any time during the planning application process, up to the point at which the local planning authority actually makes the final decision.
Once the planning application is called in, there will be a public inquiry chaired by a planning inspector, or lawyer, who based on their findings will make a recommendation to the Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State can choose to reject the inspector’s recommendations if he wishes and will genuinely take the final decision.
You can read more about the application in the recent article on the GetSurrey website
