Effingham Residents Association
Effingham Residents Association (EFFRA)
Berkeley Homes has submitted a revised planning application 23/P/01088 to build 99 homes on the Howard of Effingham school site. The previous planning application 21/P/00428 was rejected after appeal APP/Y3615/W/22/3298390. The site already has outline planning approval for the 99 Continue Reading
Guildford Borough Council (GBC) has recieved a letter from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, stating there were significant concerns about their poor performance. A similar letter was also sent to Waverley Borough Counci and Epsom and Ewell Continue Reading
Guildford Borough Council has opened consultation on their Draft Green Belt Supplementary Planning Document (SPD). The consultation closes on Wednesday 22 March at mid-day. The construction of new buildings is generally considered ‘inappropriate’ in the Green Belt. There are a Continue Reading
The owners of the Queen’s Stage public house have decided to temporarily close the pub, and posted a statement on their website. In response to the statement by the Queen’s Stage, Effingham Parish Council (EPC) have raised concerns about the Continue Reading
Effingham Parish Council (EPC) will hold an extraordinary council meeting on Friday 6 January at 8pm, in the Village Room of the KGV Hall, Browns Lane. To CONSIDER and DECIDE on the matter of the proposed Judicial Review following the Continue Reading
Effingham residents angered at the recent planning appeal decision by the Planning Inspector, protested today (Wednesday 21 December) outside the site where Berkeley Homes plan to build an extra 110 homes on the Green Belt, in addition to the 295 Continue Reading
Effingham Parish Council has launched an urgent campaign for Judicial Review to challenge the ‘irrational and incomprehensible’ decision of a planning inspector to allow Berkeley Homes to build an additional 114 homes on green belt land at Effingham Lodge Farm. The proposals Continue Reading
“I have been clear for a long time that Berkeley Homes proposal to build on our Green Belt is unacceptable. In 2018, Guildford Borough Council (GBC) did not have a Local Plan with sufficient allocated dwelling numbers and so this Continue Reading
The Planning Inspector has allowed appeal APP/Y3615/W/22/3298341 made by Berkeley Homes to build 110 homes on the Green Belt, with 41 planning conditions. In the linked appeal, the Planning Inspector has dismissed appeal APP/Y3615/W/22/3298390, for the detailed planning application to Continue Reading
Guildford Borough Council’s (GBC) barrister, Charles Streeten, has submitted his concluding remarks to the Planning Inspector into the appeal by Berkeley Homes for 110 additional homes on the Green Belt (see our post Public Inquiry ends into 110 Homes on Continue Reading