East House Chobham Road Knaphill Woking Surrey GU21 2TU

1. 1.The proposed variation of conditions attached to planning permission ref: PLAN/2025/0282 dated 9 June 2025 (itself a Section 73 application for variation of condition 02 (approved plans) of planning permission ref: PLAN/2017/0735 dated 2 July 2018) so as to extend the curtilage of East House into the previously undeveloped 'paddock' land to the easterly part of the site would, by reason of the provision of hard (patio) and artificial ('Artificial grass area (football / play area)') surfaces/landscaping, together with the likely increased spread of domestic paraphernalia and stationing of domestic items such as bins, garden furniture, clothes drying equipment, barbeques and play features within the extended garden area, and the close maintenance of that area as part of a private garden (i.e., more regular lawn cutting, domestic planting and plant cultivation etc.), as opposed to the more 'natural' appearance that it would very likely have as 'paddock' land (as per the lawful position), would represent inappropriate development in the Green Belt, which is, by definition, harmful, because it would fail to preserve the openness of the Green Belt and would conflict with one of the purposes of including land within the Green Belt given that it would fail to assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment. In addition, it would represent a harmful suburbanising change to the rural setting of East House and to the Land at Copthorne Meadows Farm development which would harmfully suburbanise the rural character and appearance of the (previously undeveloped) easterly part of the site and the surrounding open countryside, disrupting the original character and design intent of the Land at Copthorne Meadows Farm development, hindering its comfortable transition with the surrounding open countryside. This section 73 proposal is therefore contrary to Policies CS6 (Green Belt), CS21 (Design) and CS24 (Woking's Landscape and Townscape) of the Woking Core Strategy (2012), Policy DM13 (Buildings In and Adjacent to the Green Belt) of the Development Management Policies DPD (2016) and Sections 12 'Achieving well-designed places' and 13 'Protecting Green Belt land' of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) (December 2024) (most notably paragraphs 135, 143 and 154).

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

GU21 2TU

Date validated

14 November 2025