LAND COORDINATES 503685 135352 DUNSFOLD ROAD ALFOLD CRANLEIGH Outline application with all matters reserved… Data via plota.co.uk

WA/2025/00219 - OUTLINE MAJOR WITH EIA Pending

Proposal

Outline Application With All Matters Reserved Except For Access For A Development Of Up To 400 Dwellings To Provide Private And Affordable Homes With A Community Commercial Facility; Associated Infrastructure Works Including Vehicle Cycle And Pedestrian Access Allotments Areas Of Open Space And Play Provision; Sustainable Drainage And Landscaping. This Application Is Accompanied By An Environmental Statement (Environmental Statement Addendum Updated Plans And Other Documents Provided). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Feb 2025
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Committee
13 May 2026
Decision
Expected by 27 May 2025

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision soon after comments close on 17 Aug 2026; it is now day 607. The consultation period closed on 17 Aug 2026.

Planning committee

Decided by Waverley Planning Committee on 13 May 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Refused unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised refusal because the development was unsustainable, harmful to the countryside and ecology, and lacked a secured legal agreement.
  • Most representations objected, citing infrastructure, traffic, overdevelopment, environmental harm and construction impacts.
  • The committee unanimously voted to refuse permission, with 13 votes in favour of refusal.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, committee debate, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Waverley's committee minutes of 13 May 2026.

Site constraints 4

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.
Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat about 7 m away: Deciduous woodland; Open access land about 10 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 scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. 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 WITH EIA
Received
4 Feb 2025
Validated
4 Feb 2025
Ward
Alfold Dunsfold & Hascombe
Parish
Alfold
Case officer
Show
Target decision
27 May 2025
Applicant
Show
Agent
Angela Moore

Decision outlook

Day 607, past the statutory target. 70% of commercial premises in Waverley are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 19 Sept 2026.

Day 607516 days past the 91-day target
47%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
70decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
17 Aug 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