The Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust (PCT) has applied for planning permission for 134 homes – a combination of one to three-bedroom flats and two to four-bedroom houses – together with 223 parking spaces and a children's nursery. Forty per cent of the homes would be low-cost affordable housing, with 50 per cent of those reserved for employees of the health trust.
The PCT has also applied for planning permission to convert Portland Terrace into two homes and, following its partial demolition, the building of a 12-flat block. Portland Terrace, formerly accommodation for the homeless, is now unoccupied. According to documents accompanying the PCT's planning application, the building, estimated to be about 100 years old, is in a "semi-derelict" condition with no lighting or heating and a "significant pigeon infestation".
The PCT is also seeking permission to build a block of six-flats following the demolition of a hospital building at 44 Hale Road. The building has not been used since the mid to late 1990s and is boarded up and dilapidated.
The new homes are part of the Private Finance Initiative which is paying for Farnham's new hospital.