The Planning Inspectorate wrote to WCRA on the 10th May 2010, enclosing a response from WBC to the objection letter submitted to them on the 22nd March 2010.   The response letter from WBC is attached below:

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A letter of objection was sent by WCRA to the planning inspectorate on 22 March 2010.  A copy of the letter is attached below:

WCRA – Planning Inspectorate – Common Land Exchange v3 – 20100322

A Freedom of Information request to Woking Borough Council.

Bill Corney

7 March 2010

Dear Woking Borough Council,

With reference to the consultation on proposed exchange of common
land at Westfield Common in the letter from Peter Bryant dated 21
September 2009, I would be grateful if the following information
could be provided:

1) Number of people who wrote into Mr Bryant regarding the proposal
(total number of responses)

2) Number of people who wrote in with objections (total number of
objections).

3) A breakdown of the responses.

I look forward to your reply.

Yours faithfully,

Bill Corney

The response is below:

Peter Bryant
Woking Borough Council

30 March 2010

Dear Mr Corney,

Thank you for your e-mail.

The replies to your questions are:-

1. 21.
2. 16.
3. There were objections to the principle of development at Moor Lane;
the area should not be developed to meet housing needs; premature to
consult before access points have been determined; the land offered in
substitution is inadequate; too soon to comment on application;
inconsistencies between common land application and planning
application; insufficient notice given; abuse of common land; no
objection to exchange; exchange land already common land; flora and
fauna will be decimated; loss of trees; increased flood risk; exchange
land is best area to be exchanged.

Like all residents in the area, you probably experienced a degree of localised flooding following the very heavy rains over the weekend of 27-28 Feb 2010.

For example, several of the back-gardens in Moor Lane were once again swamped as the ground was already saturated and the local drainage could not cope.

Interestingly, the proposed housing site was also somewhat overcome as you can see from the pictures below:

So this begs the question of where will all this water go when there are hundreds of houses on this site?

Answer that, Woking Borough Council.

Can be found below:

WCRA – Consultation on Proposed Common Land Exchange v2 – 20091008

If anybody has any information about the vandalism (graffiti) that has occurred on Willow Bank and Westfield Way please could they contact the local police using crime reference number WK/209/7518

The WCRA objection letter is attached.

• WCRA – Access 2 Objection – no – 20090929

Please remember that the deadline for submitting comments on the application is 30th September 2009.

Hot of the press and heading to your letter box!  Click on the link below for the pdf version.

• WCRA Newsletter 2 v1