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2024 Planning Applications
Langford
ADDRESS: 'Langford' Raleigh Drive
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| ADDRESS: Langford, Raleigh Drive
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Planning Inspectorate Verdict: Appeal Ref: APP/K3605/W/23/3334391 — Land north of Raleigh Drive
- The appeal is made under section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 against a refusal to grant outline planning permission.
- The appeal is made by Claygate House Investments Ltd and MJS Investments Ltd against the decision of Elmbridge Borough Council.
- The application Ref 2023/0962, dated 24 March 2023, was refused by notice dated 22 September 2023.
- The development proposed is an outline planning application for up to 60 dwellings, associated landscaping and open space with access from Raleigh Drive.
Decision
- The appeal is dismissed.
- source: Verdict on CPC website
- PARISH COUNCIL ACHIEVEMENT 23RD MAY 2024: "Represented Claygate at the enquiry at EBC by the Planning Inspectorate into the application to build on the Green Belt: Land North of Raleigh Drive (2023/0962)."
- PARISH COUNCIL ACHIEVEMENT 2ND APRIL 2024: "Liaised with EBC regarding Land North of Raleigh Drive to object to development on Green Belt Land—Planning Inspectorate Ref APP/K3605/W/23/33343391; Planning Application Reference 2023/0962."
LAND NORTH OF RALEIGH DRIVE
An outline plan to build up to 60 dwellings on Green Belt land north of Raleigh Drive reached the Planning Committee in May last year and the Parish Council objected, saying that approval would set a very dangerous precedent for other tracts of Green Belt in the village and borough. Elmbridge Borough Council gave four reasons for refusing the application, the first being Green Belt contravention.
The developer has subsequently appealed and the Parish Council has been advised that the more people showing their opposition, the more likely the appeal is to be rejected. The date of appeal hearing will be publicised as soon as it is available. The appeal will be conducted via videoconferencing software, so residents will not be able to attend in person but can be present online.
Historical Notes
Claygate had several farms in centuries past. There was Beazley Farm by Littleworth Common which ceased milk production in the 1950s in favour of horses; Slough Farm had a dairy herd of Red Poll Cattle and later pigs but later had horses; Manor Farm had a dairy herd of prize-winning jersey cows but later had horses; Elm Farm had dairy cows and chickens and sold delicious cream, but later had a plant nursery business and horse-feed shop; Barwell Court had a big herd of Friesian milking cows and grew cereals, but later kept horses; Horringdon Farm had one of the last big dairy herds of Red Poll cattle and grew cereals and potatoes, but but later horses and grazes young cattle for Loseberry Farm; Loseberry Farm no longer keeps a dairy herd; it later kept a house cow and young stock for the dairy herd at Stoke D'Abernon.
Titts Farm
References to Titts Farm date back to 1743, but it was likely much older than this. The farm was broken up and the land auctioned off in lots for development purposes between 1908 and 1910. It comprised some 35 to 40 acres covering the area that now contains Station Road, Loseberry Road, Raleigh Drive and Rythe Road, with the railway line, Hare Lane, Hare Lane Green and the River Rythe as its approximate boundaries. In earlier years the farm probably extended further eastwards to embrace most, if not all, of Lambs Hill, and thus one of the Oaken Lane brickfields: there are references in old deeds to the payment of an annuity of £20 during the lifetime of one owner in lieu of forgoing a one-third royalty on 'unexhausted brick earth'. It also seems likely that one or two fields lying on the other side of Hare Lane may have formed part of this farm.
Titts Farmhouse and its main barn coincided very closely with the location of what became the Orchard, Hare Lane, and the old barn in its grounds bordering Raleigh Drive. The four cottages that went with the farm no longer exist. The barn off Raleigh Drive which stood until the formation of Chadworth Way lay in a field called Barn Close in the 19th century; other fields of Titts Farm were called 'Home Close', 'Carrot Field', 'Claygate Lane Field' — on which the old Swedenborgian church was subsequently built by Charles Higby — and 'Lambs Hill'.
For many years a substantial part of the farmland was owned by John Peter Robinson of Oxford Street, London, and after he died in 1895, by the trustees of his Loseberry Estate. Tenant farmers included James Freelove (1843), William Scott (1884) and William Aspin (1900).
Part of the farmland having been purchased by Bertram White of Raleigh House, Nelson Road, New Malden, was sold by him in 1910 to Ebenezer Thorogood, a builder of Surbiton. It was from the name of White's house that Raleigh Drive got its name; Rythe Road was also part of Raleigh Drive and so named originally.
Site plans of the farm and adjoining land show that a smithy was located on the corner of Station Road and Hare Lane next to the railway bridge until about 1910.
Sources
- Peebles, Malcolm (1983). The Claygate Book. (Millennium edition). Stockbridge: by BAS Printers Ltd. ISBN 0-9508978-0-9.
- Many thanks also for the photos, many supplied by Terry Gale, from the Claygate Local History Facebook group.
- Claygate Life — 2004 issue 4
