WAVERLEY Borough Council's strategy of where to build new houses over the next 15 years - including 1,295 in the Farnham area - has been criticised by a neighbouring authority for being "unsound" and too small in scale.

Rushmoor Borough Council has objected to Waverley's pre-submission Core Strategy document, arguing the council is shirking its housing responsibility and passing the buck to other councils by offering to build less houses per year than was required under the now defunct South East Plan.

The document has also come under fire from Dunsfold Park Ltd, whose masterplan application for an eco-town on the former Second World War aerodrome south of Godalming was rejected by Waverley in 2008.

For full story, see this week's Farnham Herald.