Policy information sourced from the Effingham Neighbourhood Plan

ENP-G1: A Spatial Plan for Effingham

Subject to the constraints of national Green Belt policy, housing, economic and communityrelated development within the plan area will take place within the formal Settlement Area set out in the 2003 Local Plan or its replacement, together with the sites allocated for residential development in policies ENP-SA1, ENP-SA2 and ENP-SA3, and sites assessed using policy ENP-G5 to be potentially suitable for residential development.

Development proposals located outside the Settlement Area, and not on the sites allocated or assessed as suitable for residential development, will be required to demonstrate that they are not inappropriate within the Green Belt and how they conserve the rural landscape, with reference to the Guildford Landscape Character Assessment.

Development proposals within the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) will be required to demonstrate how they conserve the AONB, with reference to the Surrey Hills Management Plan. Development proposals in close proximity to the AONB will be required to demonstrate that they will not result in the loss of important public views to and from the AONB.

For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan