Policy information sourced from the Guildford Local Plan: Strategy and Sites

ID1: Infrastructure and delivery

Infrastructure necessary to support new development will be provided and available when first needed to serve the development’s occupants and users and/or to mitigate its otherwise adverse material impacts. To achieve this, the delivery of development may need to be phased to reflect the delivery of infrastructure.

The delivery of necessary infrastructure will be secured by planning condition and/or planning obligation.

When determining planning applications, and attaching appropriate planning conditions and/or planning obligations, regard will be had to the delivery and timing of delivery of the key infrastructure, or otherwise alternative interventions which provide comparable mitigation.

The imposition of Grampian conditions shall be considered as a means to secure the provision of infrastructure when it is needed. If the timely provision of infrastructure necessary to support new development cannot be secured in line with this policy, planning permission will be refused.

The key infrastructure on which the delivery of the Plan depends is set out in the Infrastructure Schedule at Appendix 6, or any updates in the latest Guildford borough Infrastructure Delivery Plan. The Local Plan also includes land allocated for infrastructure.

Where an applicant advises that their development is unviable with the policy and infrastructure requirements, the Council will consider whether these costs were taken into account in the price paid for the site (or any agreement to purchase the site). If these costs were taken into account, as is required by the Council, but there are higher costs associated with the site that were unknown at this time, then the Council will take this factor into account when considering the viability and acceptability of the proposal.

For more information please see the Local Plan