Policy information sourced from the Guildford Local Plan: Develpment Managment Policies
ID5: Protecting Open Space
Open space will be protected in line with LPSS 2019 Policy ID4: Green and Blue Infrastructure and national policy.
Exceedance of the minimum standards set out in the Open Space, Sport and Recreation Assessment will not mean that land designated as open space is surplus to requirements. A surplus will only be considered to exist where analysis has shown that:
- the land is no longer needed as open space, and its loss would not result in, or worsen, a local deficit of that particular open space typology in terms of accessibility, quality or quantity; and
- the site cannot be improved or repurposed to correct deficits in other open space typologies.
Development proposals on open space are required to achieve biodiversity net gains in line with Policy P7: Biodiversity in New Developments.
Development proposals for ancillary uses that support the open space’s role and function may be supported.
For more information please see the Local Plan