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Allowed21 May 20266002295

Land At Snows Ride, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6LA

Planning appeal 6002295 at Land At Snows Ride, Windlesham, Surrey, GU20 6LA (Surrey Heath Borough Council) was allowed on 21 May 2026 by Inspector Davies G, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect on the purposes and openness of the Green Belt.

a mixed residential led development comprising up to 154 integrated retirement community units (Use Class C2) and 33 dwellings (Use Class C3) together with a general practice surgery, the creation of suitable alternative natural greenspace, landscaping, car parking, access, maintenance workshop, refuse storage and communal facilities

Authority
Surrey Heath Borough Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
residential · Other Major Developments
Inspector
Davies G
Postcode
GU20 6LA

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect on the purposes and openness of the Green Belt
  • The effect on the character and appearance of the area
  • Whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness and any harm arising from the two issues above would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify development in the Green Belt

What decided it

The combination of significant benefits from housing land supply, specialist elderly housing, and the offer of land for a GP surgery clearly outweighed the Green Belt and character/appearance harm, amounting to very special circumstances.

The other considerations (notably housing land supply, specialist elderly housing and the GP surgery site) clearly outweighed the substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and openness, and the limited harm to character and appearance, amounting to very special circumstances that justified allowing the appeal.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy DM9Policy CP5Policy CP6Policy WNP2.1Policy DH1
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 11Paragraph 57Paragraph 85Paragraph 143Paragraph 153Paragraph 155Paragraph 156

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