Waverley comments on The Submission Draft of the Surrey Waste Plan

Extracted from:
Waverley Borough CouncilEnvironment and Leisure Overview and Scrutiny Committee
24th July 2006
SURREY WASTE PLAN SUBMISSION DRAFT

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4. In the document “Site assessment Report 2E Final Report,” dated February 2006, there were two sites in Waverley for treatment plants and one landfill site. The treatment sites were at:·

• Runfold Antiques, Guildford Road, Runfold, Farnham .
• Petworth Road, Community Amenity site, Witley

The landfill site was at Ewhurst Brickworks.

5. The Borough Council objected to all three sites, and the Runfold site and the Ewhurst Brickworks have been deleted from the Plan. However, the Witley site remains as a proposal. Petworth Road Civic Amenity Site Witley – proposed improvements to existing facility

6. The existing Civic Amenity (Community Recycling Centre) at Petworth Road is identified as requiring internal improvements. This is generally welcomed since such sites make a great contribution to recycling. However there are constraints on the site.

7. The only Local Plan designation applying to the site is the Green Belt “where any development which would materially detract from the openness of the Green Belt will not be permitted.”

8. The site is situated on the A 283 between Milford and Witley. It is within the 2 km zone of the Special Area of Conservation and the 1km zone of the Wealden Heaths Special Protection Area. The development would not be likely to have a significant effect on the SAC or SPA because there would be no dwellings with pets on the site nor is there any direct access to the heaths for visitors to the site.

9. The road access appears satisfactory, and there is a Community Amenity site there already. There would have to be an expansion of the site, which may have an effect on the surrounding openness. Intensifying traffic movements along the access track “might well result in harm to these residents amenities”.

There is no scope for a large scale site here because that would have a detrimental effect on the dwellings. The County Council’s consultants were of the view that the Civic Amenity site could be expanded if adjacent commercial land became available, but other waste treatment would not be appropriate. And the site remains in the Plan.

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Editor's note

"Intensifying traffic movements along the access track “might well result in harm to these residents amenities”.

Residents believe the EXISTING level of traffic is problematic.