Alfold Neighbourhood Plan
Notes of the meeting held on 5.3.18
Present: Alasdair Denton-Miller; Betty Ames, Penni Mayne; Adrian Erricker; Cilla Britton; Mary Brown; Hayley Ringrose.
Apologies:Nik Pidgeon; Chris Britton
Election of Officers
The following officers were elected:
Co-Ordinator/ChairAlasdair Denton-Miller
SecretaryChris Britton (to be confirmed at next meeting)
Financial ControllerHayley Ringrose
Terms of Reference and Code of Conduct
Proposed Terms of Reference and Code of Conduct were circulated and adopted. Adoption of the Terms of Reference would be confirmed at the next Parish Council meeting.
It was agreed that meetings would be held in the Green Room at 7pm on the first Monday of the month.
Update on meeting with Ian Motuel
Alasdair met with Ian Motuel on 27/2. Ian advised the detail of the proposed factual settlement boundary update, which included minor amendments to improve the digitisation of mapping. The major change was to incorporate the piece of Sweeters Copse that has planning permission for 55 houses.
The Alfold sites that were put forward through the LAA were also discussed. There would be a new LAA published in about 3 months to update the 2016 version.
The housing number for Alfold was confirmed at 125, including permissions for 84 as at April 2017.
Ian requested that we submit an SEA application and baseline environmental information.
Local Plan Part 1 had been adopted. Prior to adoption there was a presumption was in favour of sustainable development as per the NPPF using the tilted balance. With the adoption of the Local Plan, planning balance can be used to weigh harm against benefits.
Local Plan Part 2 was going through the committee procedure and would be allocating sites in villages that weren’t allocating them through their own neighbourhood plans. Any site coming forward that has not been allocated in LPP1 or the neighbourhood plan would be unlikely to receive planning permission.
Colin Smith Planning
Colin Smith and Maggie Williams had updated their proposal that day. Even though their rates had increased since the quote last year, they had agreed to keep the fee quote the same. It was unanimously agreed to appoint Colin Smith Planning and they would attend the next meeting.
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
Alasdair would draft the Baseline environmental report requested by Waverley. Magic maps would be a helpful source of information and the parish council also subscribes to Parish Online GIS mapping. An SEA may be required and Waverley had urged to Alasdair to submit the form to request a screening opinion as soon as possible, although it was agreed this may be premature. It would be helpful to see the responses that Elstead had had from statutory consultees to their screening opinion request
Update on call for sites
The following sites had been submitted via the call for sites (CFS) or previously submitted to Waverley, and would be published in the 2018 LAA.
Chapel Field
Horders Meadow, Oakhurst Farm (via CFS)
The Nutshell (via CFS)
Glebelands Farm, Loxwood Road (via CFS)
Land South of Satchel Court Drive (via CFS), proposal for 8 units
Land at entrance to Wildwood Golf Course (via CFS)
Self-build land near the Crown – 8 units. Previous applications refused.
Bridian Farm, Satchel Court Drive: 2.7ha up to 100 units (will be in latest LAA)
Land to the south of Little Bookers Lea Farm: 1.62ha, 50 units (will be in latest LAA)
Springbok – 8 individual sites submitted.
Clerk to circulate settlement boundary map and NP designation map.
Sites Assessment Methodology. Site assessment methodology was discussed. Locality provided a Sites Assessment Toolkit. It was likely there would be a first sieve of sites and then a public consultation on sites for a second sieve.
Grant Funding Update.
The next round of grant funding would open on 1st April. Unfortunately, it was not possible to start the application until then.
New government funding update. Cannot apply until 1st April.
Next Meeting
The next meeting would be held on Monday 9th April, 6pm to 8pm in the Green Room.
The meeting ended at 8.40pm.