Green Belt and Countryside Study

What is the study?

The Green Belt and Country Study helps us:

• develop Guildford without harming Green Belt and countryside land
• decide if and where we could add new land to the Green Belt

The study offers a range of sites we might allocate for development. These are called Potential Development Areas (PDAs). It does not either:

• guarantee sites will be allocated
• judge whether they are suitable for development

Land in either of the following are not included in the study:

• Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area

If you're making a planning application, we advise you to carry out your own constraints and sustainability analysis. We decide on applications based on their own merits rather than on the information in this study.

Read our original brief (PDF) [2MB] (opens new window) .

Read our brief for further work (PDF) [52KB] (opens new window) , with its addendum (PDF) [17KB] (opens new window) .

Summary Document

Read the Green Belt and Countryside Study Summary Document (PDF) [69KB] (opens new window) .

Maps

You may also wish to read maps showing:

• Potential Development Areas Surrounding Urban Areas and Villages (PDF) [13MB] (opens new window)
• Insetting of Villages and Major Previously Developed Sites (PDF) [14MB] (opens new window)
• Potential Major Development Areas Surrounding Villages (PDF) [37MB] (opens new window)

Green Belt and Countryside Study documents

Volume I plus Appendix I and II

• Volume I plus Appendix I and II - Guildford Borough Green Belt and Countryside Study (PDF) [31MB] (opens new window)

Volume II plus Appendix IV

• Volume II plus Appendix IV - Guildford Borough Green Belt and Countryside Study (PDF) [65MB] (opens new window)

Volume II Appendix III

• Volume II Appendix III - Front cover (PDF) [656KB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel A1 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel A4 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel B6 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel C1 (PDF) [29MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel C2 (PDF) [29MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel E1 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel E21 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel E22 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel E23 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel E24 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel H1 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel H2 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel J2 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel J3 (PDF) [28MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel K2 (PDF) [30MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel K5 (PDF) [30MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel K6 (PDF) [30MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel K7 (PDF) [30MB] (opens new window)
• Land Parcel K9 (PDF) [30MB] (opens new window)
• Sustainability Assessment_Key (PDF) [14MB] (opens new window)

Volume II Addendum

• Volume II Addendum (PDF) [696KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix 1 Green Belt Purposes Schedule (PDF) [139KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix 2 Green Belt Sensitivity Map (PDF) [35MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix 3 Environmental Capacity Analysis Schedules (PDF) [264KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix 4 Environmental Capacity Analysis Mapping (PDF) [59MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix 5 Sustainability Walking Distances (PDF) [43MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix 6 Sustainability Schedules (PDF) [24KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix 7 Residential Capacity (PDF) [11KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix 8 PDAs for Urban Areas (PDF) [37MB] (opens new window)

Volume III plus Appendix V, VII

• Volume III plus Appendix V, VII - Guildford Borough Green Belt and Countryside Study (PDF) [131MB] (opens new window)

 Volume III Appendix VI

• Volume III Appendix VI - Front cover (PDF) [338KB] (opens new window)
• Chilworth (PDF) [14MB] (opens new window)
• East Horsley and West Horsley (North) (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Effingham (PDF) [13MB] (opens new window)
• Fairlands (PDF) [7MB] (opens new window)
• Flexford (PDF) [13MB] (opens new window)
• Normandy (PDF) [13MB] (opens new window)
• Ockham (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Peasmarsh (PDF) [14MB] (opens new window)
• Pirbright (PDF) [7MB] (opens new window)
• Ripley (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Send (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Send MarshBurntcommon (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Shalford (PDF) [14MB] (opens new window)
• Shalford (PDF) [14MB] (opens new window)
• West Clandon North and South (PDF) [1MB] (opens new window)
• West Horsley (South) (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Wood Street Village (PDF) [13MB] (opens new window)

Volume IV

• Volume IV (PDF) [50MB] (opens new window)
• Volume IV - Appendix VIII (PDF) [24MB] (opens new window)

Volume V

• ​ Volume V (PDF) [491KB] (opens new window)
• Section 17 Adjoining Borough (PDF) [35MB] (opens new window)
• Section 18 Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (PDF) [33MB] (opens new window)
• Section 19 Countryside Beyond the Green Belt (PDF) [36MB] (opens new window)
• Section 20 Major Previously Developed Sites (PDF) [73MB] (opens new window)
• Section 21 Major Village Expansions (PDF) [41MB] (opens new window)
• Section 22 New Settlement at Wisley Airfield (PDF) [7MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix IX PDA Urban and Villages (PDF) [13MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix X Insetting (PDF) [14MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XI Major Village Expansions (PDF) [37MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XII GBC Settlement Hierarchy (PDF) [14KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XIII Farncombe Walking Distances (PDF) [14MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XIII Sustainability Schedule PDAs (PDF) [34KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XIV Gomshall Walking Distances (PDF) [33MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XIV Shere Walking Distances (PDF) [16MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XIV Sustainability Schedule PDAs (PDF) [34KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XV K3 Walking Distances (PDF) [29MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XV K3 Sustainability Schedule (PDF) [24KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVI Burntcommon Walking Distance B12_13 (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVI Burntcommon Walking Distance B14 (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVI Normandy Flexford Walking Distance H12 (PDF) [49MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVI Send Walking Distance B16 (PDF) [6MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVI Sustainability Schedules PMDAs (PDF) [13KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVII Key Environmental Designations (PDF) [850KB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVII Key Local Plan Policies Guildford (PDF) [3MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVII Key Local Plan Policies Waverley (PDF) [2MB] (opens new window)
• Appendix XVII Key Local Plan Policies Woking (PDF) [274KB] (opens new window)

Volume VI

• Volume VI - Guildford Borough Green Belt and Countryside Study (PDF) [946KB] (opens new window)

Briefing note and FAQs

• Briefing note and FAQs - Green Belt and Countryside Study (PDF) [28KB] (opens new window)
• Note from Lead Member for Planning and Governance (PDF) [12KB] (opens new window)

You can read hard copies of these documents at our Millmead office or Guildford library (opens new window).

To buy a hard copy or DVD, contact us on 01483 505050. Please let us know two days before you'll collect your documents from Millmead, so we can have it prepared.