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WA/2025/01986 - OUTLINE MAJOR Refused

Proposal

Outline Application With All Matters Reserved Except For Access For The Phased Development Of The Site To Provide 14 Residential Dwellings Comprising 8 Affordable Dwellings And 6 Detached Self / Custom Build Homes Together With An Internal Access Road Amenity Space And Landscaping. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
10 Oct 2025
✗
Refused
23 Dec 2025
Appeal
APPEAL DISMISSED

Refused on 23 Dec 2025 · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Waverley Planning Committee on 17 Dec 2025.

Refused by 9 votes to 0

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised refusal because the housing would harm the National Landscape and the site’s landscape character.
  • Residents objected to landscape, traffic and environmental effects, while supporters highlighted affordable and self-build housing.
  • The committee voted 8–2 to refuse permission in line with the officers’ recommendation.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, representations, speakers, vote and refusal reasons. Includes the meeting recording, from 1:57:29 where this application was taken

Source: Plota analysis of Waverley's committee minutes of 17 Dec 2025.

Documents 1

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Appeal Papers General - 6006581 COSTS DECISION.pdf Document · 17 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

Surrey Hills National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
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. A site survey can differ.
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: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Heathland Connections.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 16 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
Received
10 Oct 2025
Validated
10 Oct 2025
Ward
Haslemere East and Grayswood
Parish
Haslemere
Case officer
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Target decision
9 Jan 2026
Decision
OUTLINE REFUSAL
Decision date
23 Dec 2025
Applicant
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Agent
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How this decision compares

Decided in 74 days from validation, 18 days slower than Waverley's median of 56 for outline applications. Refused, as 76% of outline applications here are.

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
9 Jun 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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings