Land at Ruffold Farm Guildford Road Cranleigh GU6 8LT Data via plota.co.uk

WA/2025/00805 - OUTLINE MAJOR Approved at committee

Approved at planning committee on 8 July 2026, subject to a legal agreement. The council issues its decision notice once the agreement is signed.

Proposal

Outline application with all matters reserved except for access and layout for the erection of 63 residential units (including 19 affordable units) with widened access point associated parking cycle storage open space associated drainage and landscaping (amended description plans and additional/amended information received november 2025). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
24 Apr 2025
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Committee
8 Jul 2026
Decision notice
Not issued yet

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 553.

The consultation period closed on 6 Jun 2025.

Planning committee

Decided by Waverley Planning Committee on 8 Jul 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because housing benefits outweighed identified harms, including Green Belt and landscape impacts.
  • The committee voted 7–1 to grant permission, with delegated authority subject to a legal agreement and conditions.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officer assessment, objections, speakers, committee debate, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Waverley's committee minutes of 8 Jul 2026.

Site constraints 3

Grade II listed: Ruffold Farm House Hotel
List entry 1189654 · 2 m away
Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Historic England ↗
Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Read the government guidance ↗
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.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 20 October 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 8LT
Received
24 Apr 2025
Validated
24 Apr 2025
Ward
Cranleigh West
Parish
Cranleigh
Case officer
Show
Target decision
24 Jul 2025
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 553, past the statutory target. 79% of outline applications 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 27 Oct 2026.

Day 553462 days past the 91-day target
58%decided within 8 weeks
24%approved
35decided 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
6 Jun 2025
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