The Horsell's Mouth Politics, pedantry and personal interests

Sorry for not blogging more, I’ve come down with a heavy cold over the last couple of days and haven’t felt like doing much.

I will blog on it more at a later point but a planning application for light industrial units and warehouses on the Carthouse Lane site, as well as 80 new allotments, has been put in by Rutland Homes. We are assured that these will be in addition to and not instead of the current Horsell Allotments.

I need to declare a personal interest here – as someone on the waiting list for Horsell Allotments, I stand to gain getting an allotment several years earlier than expected if the application is granted and the scheme goes ahead. But setting that aside, I don’t have a problem with the warehouses given what’s already there – and think it would be difficult to stop them through the planning system anyway.

However, I’d be interested to hear from anyone living in the lane if they have any objections. The application can be viewed on the Woking Borough Council website at the Public Access for Planning application. Under application search, enter PLAN/2009/1091. Objections need to be in by January 21 – Horsell Residents Association is aware.