Vote – 29 Feb 2024 – referendum – Cranleigh Neighbourhood Plan
At last there is a moment in time when the community can vote for the Neighbourhood Plan in a referendum! It is a good thing because it should help with being clear about the boundaries of our built up area and where housing can and shouldn’t go. To read all about the process please click here
To understand the process and about the actual vote please click here.
To read the latest version of the Neighbourhood Plan please click here.
The Waverley Borough Council website states the following –
‘A formal application was made by Cranleigh Parish Council to designate the Neighbourhood Area and was publicised in accordance with the relevant Regulations. No adverse comments were received. On 16 July 2013 we designated Cranleigh Parish as a Neighbourhood Area.
Decision Statement
On 17 January 2024 we issued a decision statement which confirmed that we accept all of the independent examiner’s recommendations and that the Cranleigh Neighbourhood Plan can proceed to referendum.
Referendum
A Neighbourhood Planning Referendum relating to the adoption of the Cranleigh Neighbourhood Development Plan 2021-2032 will be held on Thursday 29 February 2024.
impenetrable nonsense. I defy anyone to read the secions on Sewage, utilities etc (not included in the doc – why?) and make the slightest sense of it. No mention of medical provision whatsoever.
Cranleigh Society asked Cranleigh Parish Council to hold a meeting so that people could understand the implications of the Neighbourhood plan before the referendum – this is the response –
‘The Parish Council is bound by the Code of Practice on Local Authority Publicity and is only permitted to make members of the public aware of the referendum.’
I agree with all the improvements to Cranleigh high street, which I hope will go ahead as soon as possible and do away with all the free high Street parking and improve the area for pedestrians.
The plan seems to me to be an excellent piece of work, but purely aspirational. It has insufficient/no ‘teeth’.
Why do we ‘encourage’ developers …
Why do we not ‘require’ them to do things?
In para 6.76 it says “… and an acceptance that flooding can occur away from the flood plain as a result of development where off site sewerage infrastructure and capacity is not in place ahead of development…”
Why do we allow development to take place ahead of the infrastructure being ready? Is this the way to run a country? [rhetorical].
It seems to allow developers to notify sewage treatment of their plans, but to build new development ahead of the infrastructure being ready/sufficient.
Please vote against this terrible proposal. The town centre will be ruined if the high street parking is removed. Lots of us stop to buy a sandwich for lunch on the way through. Or stop to grab some vegetables on the say home. If you think that people will drive to a car park and pay, then walk to the shop then buy the sandwich and walk back again and then go to work. It will take at least 10 minutes and the cost of parking will exceed the cost of the sandwich. If this scheme goes ahead Cranleigh will end up like Godalming.
Sadly many people are confusing Surrey County Council’s plans to spend builders’ contributions to improve the High Street, with Waverley Borough Council and Cranleigh Parish Council’s 9 years of work to create a planning document called Neighbourhood Plan, which is to be put to a referendum of Cranleigh Parishioners. Not the same thing at all. We need about half the High Street proposals to be carried out to improve the High Street. We need to say to the Neighbourhood plan in order to provide some protection to our village when developers are on the look our for the owners of fields to build on.