THE jury may still be out on plans to build 1,800 new homes at Dunsfold Park, but the airfield is identified as “appropriate” for at least 2,600 houses in Waverley’s updated register of brownfield sites.

Dunsfold Park, a former Second World War aerodrome and the largest brownfield site in the borough, did not appear at all in Waverley’s last brownfield register, which listed 36 sites that could yield 902 houses.

But this year it heads the list, underlining its new key role in the draft local plan for delivering the council’s increased housing target of 10,000 new homes by 2032.

A final decision on Dunsfold Park’s outline ‘master plan’, following September’s planning inquiry, is due to be made by January 18.

The register encourages the reuse of brownfield sites or “previously developed land” as defined by the National Planning Policy Framework and is intended to speed up the planning process for such sites.

It focuses on the redevelopment of sites for residential use but includes other uses, such as offices and retail, provided they support a residential element.

Waverley published part one of its register last week, which identifies all the brownfield sites it has assessed as appropriate for residential development, including sites with extant full planning permission, outline planning permission and permission in principle, as well as sites without planning permission.

Part two will whittle down list the sites in part one to this sites that Waverley has decided would be suitable for a grant of permission in principle for residential development.

In the Farnham area, the Woolmead is identified as appropriate for 96 new homes while development is also earmarked at Victoria House, South Street (eight homes), the SSE Farnham Depot, Lower Weybourne Lane (52 homes), Guildford Road Service Station (five homes), land at Farnham College, Morley Road (14 homes), 19 Knowle Farm, Old Park Lane (nine homes), land at Harts Yard, 114-115 West Street (13 homes), 2-3 The Borough (11 homes) and 74 to 84 East Street (14 flats).

In Wrecclesham, nine homes are proposed at Coal Yard, 6 The Street, and 10 homes at Colemans Yard, Wrecclesham Road. And in Elstead, 69 homes are proposed at the former Weyburn Works in Shackleford Road.