41 Woodhatch Masterplan PDF 387 KB
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Decision:
RESOLVED:
Reason for Decision:
By approving this recommendation Surrey County Council will:
· Make an essential contribution towards the Council’s strategic objective to expand affordable Extra Care Housing provision by 2030.
· Support the 2020-2025 Reigate and Banstead Housing Delivery Strategy to secure the delivery of homes that can be afforded by local people and which provide a wider choice of tenure, type and size of housing.
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Minutes:
The Leader explained that the doors to County Hall in Kingston upon Thames had closed at the end of 2020 with all county council services now moving back into Surrey. The Woodhatch masterplan presented an opportunity to create a flagship sustainable development supporting the Greener Futures agenda by delivering a programme of improvement projects, all within a site that is visually and ecologically rich and which will be enhanced both on and off site to support the wellbeing of the wider community that it serves. The masterplan provided an opportunity to relocate Reigate Priory Junior school, provide affordable extra care provision and deliver key worker housing which was subject to planning consent.
The Cabinet Member for All-Age Learning stated that the current Reigate Priory Junior school building presented a number of issues because of public rights of way and a heavy burden due to building maintenance costs. It was commented that intergenerational learning would be a benefit between the adults living in the extra care facilities and the children attending the junior school.
Members were advised that the community protection group including the fire service and trading standards would be located at the Woodhatch site. Previously teams had been based in various parts of the county. Members were supportive of the additional extra care housing which had been identified and the co- location of services and teams on one site.
RESOLVED:
Reason for Decision:
By approving this recommendation Surrey County Council will:
· Make an essential contribution towards the Council’s strategic objective to expand affordable Extra ... view the full minutes text for item 41