Creating the Evidence Base for the Local Plan
As part of the local plan process the council are researching a wide variety of issues to create an evidence base for plan making. As these assessment are made available they are being publicshed on the Guildford Borough Council website. See Link.
Note that the Evidence Page contains some documentation that reflects the plan adopted in 2019.
Recently published are
Employment Needs Assessment
IIncludes an assessment of how much employment land/floorspace we'll need in Guildford until 2045 for:
- Office Uses
- Industrial Uses
and
Housing Needs Assessment.
See both documents linked too below
These will be joined by other assessments over the course of the Local Plan development. One just published is the Greenbelt Assessment details of which can be found at linked post below
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