Policy information sourced from the West Horsley Neighbourhood Plan
WH1: West Horsley Conservation Area
Development proposals within the West Horsley Conservation Area or its setting, as shown on the Policies Map, will be supported provided they have full regard to the West Horsley Character Appraisal Report and the following design principles:
- Proposals demonstrate an empathy with the diverse style of the existing built environment as detailed in Evidence Base: West Horsley Character Appraisal Report (October 2017);
- Buildings should be of good design and use high quality materials. Scales, heights and form of buildings should be sympathetic to the existing built environment. They should seek to include the use of locally used and prominent materials such as natural clay red brick roof and tile hanging, timber weatherboarding, painted roughcast render and knapped flint;
- Proposals retain or re-provide as appropriate low boundary walls, hedges and front gardens to match the existing arrangement on the same alignment; and
- Proposals retain or re-provide as necessary natural verges to the highway.
Proposals that will result in the unnecessary loss of mature trees and established hedgerows will be resisted.
For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan