New Gypsy site plan for Murrays Lane expected - Surrey

From Woking People

WITHDRAWN plans for a Gypsy site in West Byfleet are likely to re-surface, a residents' group has warned.

Proposals for four pitches for an extended Romani Gypsy family on agricultural land off Murrays Lane were removed earlier this month.

Woking Borough Council received more than 1,000 comments relating to the site, mostly in objection to the proposals.

It is believed applicant Simon Ruston withdrew the application after concerns were raised about noise and flooding.

However Byfleet, West Byfleet and Pyrford Residents' Association said it is likely a new application will be submitted once these issues are addressed.

When a new application is lodged, residents will need to re-state their objections, Richard Thomas, vice chairman of The Residents' Association said.

Mr Thomas said: "It has been removed I'm told because the local authority wanted more information.

"One was on ecology, one was on noise and one was on flooding and the applicant decided to withdraw the applications to enable him to collect that information I presume.

"It sounds as though it will start again.

"It will come back as a new application, with a new number and they will go through the process again.

"All those who wish to object will have to object again because the existing objections are relevant to that application and will die with that application."

The withdrawal followed two packed public meetings in February at Byfleet Village Hall for talks on the Murray Lane proposals.