A STEADY stream of residents turned out for a three-day preview consultation from Friday to Sunday of Chiddingfold Neighbourhood Plan, which is due to go out to formal consultation in April after four years in the making.

Waverley’s Local Plan Part 1 sets the village the target of finding sites for 130 new homes. A total of 20 have been built since 2013, taking the minimum target to 110.

The lion’s share of these has been allocated to land behind Woodside Close and north of Queens Mead, which could accommodate 60.

A further 19 are allocated to part of Meadow Nursery, with at least 15 to be built on Waverley Borough Council-owned land off Harts Grove. off Pathfield, off Turners Mead and off Quens Mead.

Land south of Field View Close has been allocated eight, land off Skinners Lane could accommodate three and land beside Clover Cottage in Coxcombe Lane could accommodate four homes.

A total of 45 new affordable homes would form part of the 111 houses envisaged.

Chiddingfold Neighbourhood Plan will decide where to release land from the green belt, based on an official study that identified suitable large swathes of land for “potential adjustment”.

The neighbourhood plan also seeks to strengthen the protection for green spaces in the village that are “demonstrably special to local

people”.

They include Chiddingfold Green, St Mary’s churchyard, Coxcombe Lane recreation ground, the cricket field, Woodside Meadow, Combe Common recreation ground and St Teresa of Avila churchyard.

Projects to improve community facilities include a new scout hut and mini skateboard park at Combe Common, a community car park off Coxcombe Lane, a nursery building, and a green burial site.

Steering group committee member Christine Tebbot said: “We have all been on a journey together and we are now meeting a lot of those aspirations.

“It’s important to have a neighbourhood plan – you benefit from a higher percentage of infrastructure contributions.”