Policy information sourced from Mole Valley Core Strategy
CS 2 Housing Provision and Location
The Council will make provision for at least 3,760 net dwellings within the District between the period 2006 and 2026 in accordance with the South East Plan Policy H1.
In meeting this requirement:
- Priority will be given to locating new residential development within the defined built-up areas of Leatherhead, Dorking (including North Holmwood), Ashtead, Bookham and Fetcham.
- Infilling and limited residential development (including redevelopment) will be permitted within Beare Green, Brockham, Capel, Charlwood, Hookwood and Westcott.
- Infilling will be permitted within Betchworth, Boxhill, Leigh, Mickleham, Newdigate, Ockley, South Holmwood, Strood Green, Westhumble and Woodlands Road, Bookham.
- Exceptionally, small scale affordable housing schemes (i.e. “rural exception sites”) may be acceptable on sites outside of, but adjoining the settlement boundaries of the rural villages listed in paragraphs 2 and 3 above, subject to policies set out in the Development Management Policies Development Plan Document (DPD).
The Council’s indicative Housing Trajectory shows that the District’s housing requirement can be met without the need to use Green Belt / greenfield land until around 2016-2017. Before then the Council will prepare a Land Allocations Development Plan Document. This will allocate housing sites in the built-up area and incorporate a review of the Green Belt boundary to ensure sufficient land is allocated to meet the District’s housing requirements and that a release mechanism is established to manage its delivery.
For more information please see the Core Strategy