Policy information sourced from the Send Neighbourhood Development Plan

Send 1 – Design

High quality and sustainable design is expected in Send and shall conserve and enhance its heritage and environmental assets including the Wey & Godalming Navigations Conservation Area and its setting. All development proposals will be expected to demonstrate how they promote and reinforce the local distinctiveness and high quality built and natural environment of Send with reference to the Send Neighbourhood Development Plan Character Assessment. Proposals should seek to ensure that development does not result in significant adverse effects on the key views identified in the maps on pages 25 to 32 and respects and retains key natural landscape assets. In particular, in the following Character Areas:

  • Wey Navigation and River Wey – proposals must conserve and enhance the Wey & Godalming Navigations Conservation Area;
  • A247 and Sanger Drive – proposals must retain its open green feel with wide verges and trees, stretches of hedging and swathes of wild-flowers and daffodils;
  • Church Lane, Vicarage Lane and Woodhill – proposals must retain and respect the very attractive buildings, the beautiful and ancient church and graveyard, and the stud farm;
  • Potters Lane and Fishing Lakes – proposals must reflect its rural and unspoilt character with many trees and beautiful lakes and very little light pollution;
  • Send Hill – proposals must reflect its very green and rural character as a result of many mature trees and hedges;
  • Tannery Lane – proposals must retain its narrow country lane character and rights of way through farmland linking to Send Marsh Road and beyond;
  • Polesden Lane, Send Marsh Green and Send Marsh Road (west) – proposals must demonstrate how they have been designed to conserve, or where possible enhance, the significance of the oldest surviving buildings in Send, many of which are listed, and the oldest part of the village at Send Marsh Green;
  • Send Marsh Road (south) and Send Marsh Estate – proposals must reflect the variety of two storey dwelling types in this area;
  • The area from the stream by the Villages Medical Centre along Send Barns Lane including the roads to the left and Boughton Hall Avenue - Proposals must include retaining the open and green appearance of the roads leading off Send Barns Lane where the majority of the front gardens are open plan with the rest having low hedges in a setting of mature trees. Proposals must include the retention of grass verges along Send Barns Lane and along the roads leading off it except where highways improvement schemes may be required. Boughton Hall Avenue proposals must retain the generous number of mature trees along both sides of the road and in private gardens with the low-level density character of trees, hedges and large gardens in the area;
  • Portsmouth Road, Burnt Common (south) and Clandon Road – outside of the Local Plan strategic housing allocation, proposals should reflect the variety of styles in this area, and in the whole of area J) the aim should be to retain the healthy mature trees along the roads;
  • Fell Hill and Potters Lane South – proposals must reflect its rural character of farmland and woodland with scattered development;
  • London Road – proposals must retain the trees and hedges along both sides of the road;
  • Sandfields – proposals must retain the green character and open space, particularly the Upper Sandfields Green.

For more information please see the Neighbourhood Development Plan