LAND SOUTH OF JUNCTION WITH SACHEL COURT DRIVE LOXWOOD ROAD ALFOLD CRANLEIGH Outline planning application… Data via plota.co.uk

WA/2025/00597 - OUTLINE MAJOR Refused

Proposal

Outline Planning Application With All Matters Reserved Except For Access For The Erection Of Up To 70 Homes (Including Affordable Housing) New Vehicular Access Associated Parking And Landscaping Following Demolition Of Existing Bridian Farmhouse And Associated Outbuildings (As Amended By Layout Plan). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
28 Mar 2025
✓
Committee
18 Feb 2026
✗
Refused
24 Feb 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 24 Feb 2026 · Last checked 25 Sept 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Waverley Planning Committee on 18 Feb 2026.

Refused by 8 votes to 2

Against officer advice: officers had recommended approval.

  • Officers advised approval because housing benefits outweighed limited countryside and local character harm, subject to mitigation.
  • Residents objected over infrastructure, traffic, drainage, countryside, ecology, construction disruption and effects on quality of life.
  • The committee voted 8–2 to refuse, citing wastewater capacity, missing legal-agreement contributions and affordable housing.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officer assessment, objections, speakers, committee debate, vote and reasons for refusal. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Waverley's committee minutes of 18 Feb 2026.

Site constraints 2

Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Also on the record
Open access land 37 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 25 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Waverley
Application type
OUTLINE MAJOR
Postcode
GU6 8UF
Received
28 Mar 2025
Validated
28 Mar 2025
Ward
Alfold, Cranleigh Rural and Ellens Green
Parish
Alfold
Case officer
Show
Target decision
27 Jun 2025
Decision
OUTLINE REFUSAL
Decision date
24 Feb 2026
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 333 days from validation, 278 days slower than Waverley's median of 55 for outline applications. Refused, as 71% of outline applications here are.

62%decided within 8 weeks
29%approved
23decided in the last year

Plota live figures for outline applications decided by Waverley in the last twelve months, from validation. Waverley decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
17 Feb 2026
Waverley
Planning Authority Score
5.3/10
Average
#133 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

Waverley ranks #144 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Waverley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #163 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #141 of 296
66%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #144 of 296
38%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #134 of 296
70%
Minor dwellings approved
151 decided (1-9 homes)
59%
Major dwellings approved
17 decided (10+ homes)
67%
Change of use approved
21 decided
1,378
Total decisions
161 refused in the year to March 2026