Where we are
Specialist surveys of the site, covering ecology, trees, drainage and flood risk, transport and access, so the design is grounded in evidence.
An initial masterplan drawn up in response to the site and its surroundings. This is the draft you can see now.
An informal, pre-application consultation held with neighbours and the wider community in July 2026, inviting views on the initial proposals. Now complete.
We reviewed the comments received, alongside survey findings and consultee responses, and refined the design where we could.
The updated scheme returned to the independent Design South East design review panel on Tuesday 13 October 2026. As with the first, we will publish the panel's report here on this website once we have it.
A second public consultation on the refined proposals, brought forward in response to requests from residents at the first consultation for another opportunity to comment before any application is submitted. It takes place on Wednesday 21 October 2026, 11am to 4pm, at The Drumming Snipe in Mayford, running as bookable 30-minute sessions.
A formal outline planning application is submitted to the local planning authority. Access is applied for in detail; layout, scale, appearance and landscaping are reserved for a later, more detailed application.
Once the application is registered, the council runs its own formal 21-day consultation. Anyone can comment directly to the council at this point.
The council assesses the application against planning policy and the responses received, over a statutory determination period of around 13 weeks. The council will take whatever time it needs to consider the application properly. If that means going beyond 13 weeks, it will, so the decision is never rushed.
The application is determined, either by the council's planning committee or under delegated powers.
Good to know
Before any application is submitted, we run our own informal, pre-application consultations, so we can hear your views while the design can still change. We held the first in July 2026, and there will be a further consultation on the refined proposals before an application is made.
Later, once a planning application is submitted, the council runs its own formal 21-day consultation. At that point you can also comment directly to the council, and those comments form part of the official record. Sharing your views with us now does not remove your right to do that.
We may not be able to reflect every comment, but we want to hear all of them. The more we understand what matters to you, the better the scheme can be for this location.