Tandridge District Council seeks potential sites for housing

Tandridge District Council abandoned its local plan, setting out where 6,000 homes would be built in the district

A Surrey council is looking for sites that could be developed for housing in its district.

Tandridge District Council is not only searching for sites for new homes, but also Gypsy and Traveller plots, and areas for re-wilding.

Anyone can submit a possible site for consideration, not just landowners.

The annual call-out comes after the district council abandoned it local plan, which set out where 6,000 new homes would be built.

The council is particularly keen to receive details about brownfield sites, which have previously been developed.

Sites are also needed for offices and shops, leisure and tourism and for natural flood mitigation or renewable energy.

Tandridge's plan for homes was effectively labelled "unsound" by a government inspector in August.

The council has since asked the inspector to put together a report detailing the reasons the plan could not progress.

'Make landowner's aware'

Details of possible development sites can be submitted to the council until 17 March.

Sites will then be assessed for their suitability, but this will not determine whether a site should be allocated for development or whether planning permission should be granted.

A council spokesperson said: "You do not have to own a site to suggest it for development, although you will need to provide the landowner's details.

"Please make the landowner aware before submitting details of their site."

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