The details below have been extracted from Proposed Submission Local Plan Regulation 19 document published by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council in November 2024. The document is complex and long (184 pages).

Allocated for:
Approximately 1,250 dwellings (C3) including some specialist housing and self-build plots, 10 gypsy and traveller pitches, business incubation space,
community building and a public park of approximately 7ha in addition to other green and blue infrastructure.
Site Area: 37.9 ha (93.6 acres)
Hook Rd, Epsom, KT19 8QQ
>> Approved by LPPC committee of EEBC on 20th November 2024 <<
Any questions or concerns about the development should be sent to your local councillor. The site is located in the Court Ward of Epsom and Ewell Borough Council. The councillors for Court ward are listed below.
Councillor Chris Ames (Labour)
Councillor Kate Chinn (Labour)
Councillor Rob Geleit (Labour)
The contact details of all councillors at Epsom and Ewell Council are on the link below. It is important that councillors are aware of any concerns, as they will vote to adopt the Local Plan on 10th December.
In addition to complying with the policies in the plan, any developer of this site will be required to:
a) Provide appropriate vehicle, pedestrian and cycle access to the site and enable the site to be served by public transport.
b) Provide permeability through the site for pedestrians and cyclists into and from the development to provide connectivity between adjoining residential areas and associated facilities and Horton County Park.
c) Provide a community building, capable of accommodating early years education provision and other community uses responding to the needs of the locality.
d) Provide additional primary care capacity required to serve local needs. This could take the form of on-site provision integrated into a community building which accommodates primary health care provision alongside community health and wellbeing services required to meet the area’s needs, or an equivalent financial contribution towards offsite provision of new or improvement to existing health facilities. The form of required additional primary care provision will be determined in consultation with the NHS at the
time the site comes forward.
e) Provide a public park of approximately 7ha within the land to the North of the site incorporating walking, cycling routes, equestrian routes and measures for surface water management and biodiversity enhancement.
f) Establish a legal mechanism for long term management of green and blue
infrastructure and children’s play space on the site, providing access for recreational purposes by the general public as well as residents of the development.
g) Incorporate an area of approx. 0.6ha, with access to the highway and utilities connections, suitable for delivery of gypsy and traveller pitches (10 pitches).
h) The pitches will be public (tenure) forming part of the affordable housing contribution (1 pitch equates to 1 affordable home). Pitches should be serviced pitches, providing hard standing, amenity space and connections for drainage, electricity and water.
i) Incorporate sustainable drainage measures to address and mitigate the risk of surface water flooding, in accordance with Policy S16 and site-specific guidance in the Level 2 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment.
j) Conserve and, where possible, enhance the setting of Grade II Listed Horton Farm House.
k) Ensure the site layout retains and protects veteran trees and maximises retention and safeguarding of other existing mature trees and hedgerows as part of a coherent landscaping strategy for the site.
l) Achieves a measurable biodiversity net gain of at least 20% as calculated using the latest statutory metric.


4 responses to “Site SA35 – Land at Horton Farm”
words fail me!! It’s Green Belt, the local roads and community just cannot sustain this proposal, we’ll I say ‘proposal’, it’s going ahead no matter your local community and tax payers say.
Mrs S Alderton
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absolutely disgusting. Another example of the Labour Party’s double standards. The worse government ever. Too busy lining their pockets and punishing the old vunerable people etc. Have not got a clue what they are doing.
Miss J S Inglis
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sorry green belt means nothing to the government /
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The logic of this shortsighted policy from a tiny number of councillors is hard to understand. There are plenty of brownfield sites that should have been developed instead. High rise flats near Epsom town centre where urbanites actually want to live for instance. Why create more urban sprawl in beautiful and priceless greenbelt. Seems to me the current government and it;’s lackies in the council have inconsistent environmental policies to put it mildly. On the one hand lecturing the nation about renewables and the environment on the other hand forcing councils to adopt plans that destroy the best environments we have.
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