What the Developers Want

General News

The Council submitted its future development plan known as the Core Strategy to the Secretary of State on 28 December 2007 and undertook a six week public consultation on it ending on 28 February 2008. That consultation was bombarded with submissions from developers about what they wanted to build and why they wanted to build it on our Green Belt. They targeted specific sites. Those sites have now been advertised.

Please do write in by June 5th and tell the Government Planning Inspector, Mr David Vickery, why these sites should not be developed, why the Council's plan is sound and why there is no need to build on the Tandridge Green Belt

What the developers want to do to our Green Belt can be seen on the Tandridge Council web site:
click here

To see the ferocity of the attack on the Green Belt, when you've opened this web page, do the following:
Click on: "Core Strategy submission draft online version for comments"
Then click"Core Strategy Submission Draft"
Then: "View Closed Consultation"
Then: "Read Document"
Then click "Housing Provision" in the list on the left hand side
Scroll down to Policy CSP12 (shaded green) and read the 21 comments (3 pages)

The documents can also be seen at:
The Council Offices, Station Road East, Oxted - Monday to Thursday 9.00am to 5.00pm, Fridays 4.30 pm
Caterham Valley Library and Oxted Library during normal opening hours.

You have until June 5th to make your views known

Write to: Director of Planning, Tandridge District Council, Station Road East, Oxted, RH8 0BT. Or email your letter to LDF@tandridge.gov.uk

Your letters will go direct to Mr Vickery who has promised to take full account of them.

He's the man who will decide whether to throw out or change the Council's plan which we support. He will decide whether your Green Belt can be built on.

His word is binding on the council. The council has to do what he tells them.

Mr Vickery's Examination hearings continue on June 23 and last until July 3. More details of his Examination are on the Tandridge web site.( see link above)