Mole Valley District Council has published its next – and fairer – version of its Draft Local Plan.
This new Draft Local Plan reflects the commitments that the Liberal Democrats have made to residents: to protect what makes our area so special and to provide housing that will allow our children to live in the area in which they grew up.
We have challenged the Government’s housing targets for Mole Valley and, to the extent that the Government will allow us to do so, we have restricted development in the Green Belt. Regrettably some of the Green Belt sites which were included in the previous Draft Local Plan following the Conservatives’ call for Green Belt sites to be brought forward for development in December 2017 remain in the new Draft Local Plan to meet the Government’s housing targets.
The stricter criteria that the new Draft Local Plan has applied to releasing sites in the Green Belt for development has unfortunately resulted in some sites close to village boundaries, where small scale housing development had been proposed, being removed from the Local Plan. We have partially addressed this through the Rural Housing Exception Policy.
For details of the new Draft Local Plan and how the proposals will impact on where you live, click on “What does It mean for your area?” at: https://mvld.org.uk/LocalPlan
Hi There I have just been to a site in New Malden for Fairview homes they have just finished a development like the one purposed for the Dorking Station But they have ample parking on the ground floor which is a must for this development. Thank you. Paul Daubney.
The Draft Local Plan does not envisage a development anywhere near as big as that proposed by Clarion. The Local Plan has suggested a development of an additional 35 dwellings with adequate parking provision – and we should keep to the Draft Local Plan.