FARNHAM residents concerned about issues such as "garden grabbing" have been urged not to miss the opportunity to have their say. The deadline for replies to Waverley Council's questionnaire on the future of housing in Waverley is next Friday, August 25. Zofia Lovell, secretary of the Abbotts Ride Residents' Association, which has been battling against large homes in the area being replaced by upmarket flats developments, has been rallying her members to submit their responses and urged that other residents should also do so. "We have been plugging away for two years trying to get some sort of protection for the south Farnham area from abuse of the system. "We have been told the Local Development Framework document would give the opportunity to have our say. Now this is our opportunity, doing it Waverley's way, to make our views felt." The questionnaire, available from the locality office in Farnham or on Waverley Council's website, covers such issues as how much new housing should be provided, where and when. Also, the size of development (currently 15 new homes) that triggers the requirement for a percentage of affordable homes to be included. Zofia Lovell believes the rules should be altered, to prevent developers from avoiding the requirement to provide affordable housing through lucrative flats developments below the current threshold. "It would make them think twice about the economic viability of this type of redevelopment." Meanwhile, South West Surrey MP Jeremy Hunt has asked water bosses questions about how they plan to service the thousands of new homes which are to be built in Surrey over the next decade. Research carried out by Mr Hunt has highlighted that more than a million extra litres of water will be needed per day if the surge of overdevelopment continues. He said: "As this summer has proved, we have immense problems with water supply in the South East. We have a hosepipe ban and experts are warning that our reservoirs are running dangerously low. "I want to know how our already stretched water companies plan to cope with the extra demand which will occur as a result of the rapid house building taking place in the South East." With Waverley Council's Core Strategy stating that there will be 2,810 new homes built between 2001 and 2016, he said, an extra 6,687 people could be expected to be living in Waverley, where water consumption is 166 litres per person per day. Mr Hunt said: "This is a matter of real concern. Overdevelopment is not only scarring our towns, but it is also putting great pressure on our infrastructure.  "I predict that hosepipe bans will be the norm if houses continue to spring up in this way."