RESIDENTS objecting to Waverley Borough Council’s preferred sites for around 60 new homes in Elstead have called for people to respond to a consultation on the borough’s Local Plan Part Two before it closes this Monday (July 9).

Three Green Belt sites have been proposed for development by Waverley. A dozen new homes are to be located at Sunray Farm off West Hill, 35 on a field behind The Croft and a further 20 behind Four Trees, both off Hookley Lane. 

However, Elstead’s Neighbourhood Plan team believes developing two Hookley Lane sites will cause traffic problems at the Milford Road junction and along the lane itself.

Michael Organe, editor of the Elstead Online magazine, told the Herald: “Our Neighbourhood Plan team recommended more homes on Sunray Farm, with none at Four Trees. Sunray Farm is closer to village shops and facilities and development should not all be at one end of the village.

“On the small Croft estate there would be double the number of homes using the very narrow and bendy service road off Hookley Lane. In one place it is only a single vehicle width on a blind bend, with no footway.

“Wherever they are built new homes will have an impact on traffic in the village but housing on Sunray Farm would have the least impact because of its central position.”

Respond to Waverley’s consultation by email to [email protected], or online via the Waverley Consultation Portal.