Redhill Aerodrome New Garden Community Vision Statement January 2018 Reducing New Strategic 3,800 Flood Road Links jobs on & Risk off-site Extending Footpaths New Provision of & Cycleways M23 Primary and Secondary Junction Schools £87m £125m open NEW Community space 40% Infrastructure HOMES Levy (CIL) BONUS average Improved Facilities District at Railway Stations: Centre & Cycle Regular Bus construction290 Transport Parking Service jobs per year Hub £190m H NEW value added Improved HEALTHCARE (GVA) per annum access to the FACILITIES hospital 8,000 per annum DEDICATED New £21.8m Air Council Tax Ambulance homes Increase FACILITY Contents The Vision pg 2 Our Development Framework for Redhill Aerodrome Garden An Community The Unprecedented pg 6 Development Opportunity Framework pg 4 Explained Life at pg 14 Redhill Aerodrome Garden Community, 2033 pg 12 Summary of Benefits pg 22 Who will build this new Garden Community? pg 24 21st Century Living Rooted in Surrey Traditions The best of traditional Surrey residential environments with the expectations of a 21st century The Vision lifestyle - low-energy, high performance homes; a rich landscape setting accessible to every home; well served by sustainable transport Redhill Aerodrome modes – walking, cycling Garden Community - and buses. an exceptional place to be born, to grow up, to make a career, to raise a family, to A True “Garden Community” retire; to enjoy a rich Every home to and fulfilling life. have a good size garden or other Delivery as Rapid outside space as Anywhere – no cramped Everything in place patios or unusable to start building balconies - and homes within ready access to four years of Local great open spaces Plan Adoption nearby. and to create a community of approximately 8,000 homes with all facilities. KEY QUESTIONS Jobs in Homes Encouragement Why here and why now? for homeworking What will the proposed Garden with support services available Community look like? locally. What will life be like in our new Garden Community? We will make sure it is not just a housing estate in the countryside. 2 Infrastructure-led Development Funding a new junction on the Great Sustainable M23 and a new Transport strategic link road Walking and cycling planned to the A23 - capacity to be as convenient as jumping and connections in the car for local journeys. for the new and existing community Good value, frequent, high- that relieve quality, reliable public transport existing traffic connections to Redhill, Gatwick bottlenecks. Airport, Crawley and to the main retail centres and employment areas, and links to other destinations across Surrey and into London. Enjoying a Great Landscape Restoration of A beautiful Redhill Brook and an enhanced network of community with parkland paths where few a strong sense currently exist, available to everyone and of identity and connected belonging. Delivery as Rapid to a wider as Anywhere network. Everything in place to start building homes within four years of Local Jobs Alongside Homes Plan Adoption Employment and to create a opportunities to support community of the economic growth of approximately Tandridge and Reigate and 8,000 homes with Banstead - in the District all facilities. Centre, local centres, in a new business park located close to the M23 and in the expansion of All Services the East Surrey Hospital, at Hand spaces for inward Jobs, child care, investors and local schools, local entrepreneurs. shops, healthcare, sport and leisure facilities, all available on-site. 3 An Unprecedented Opportunity A Garden Community at Redhill Aerodrome is an unprecedented opportunity to make well-planned provision for housing development and economic growth in a sustainable, well connected and low impact location. The site for the Redhill Aerodrome Garden Community straddles the boundary between Reigate and Banstead Borough and Tandridge District, in the heart of the coast-to-capital corridor so it can significantly help the housing needs of both Councils in a sustainable location on a single site. Redhill Aerodrome Garden Community has all the potential to become a thriving new place where local people really want to live and to work. Strategic infrastructure investments will improve local conditions by making new connections for through traffic and better public transport links to key local destinations. 4 Meeting Local Plan Needs as Quickly as Possible Our proposal provides land for Only our proposal will: approximately 8,000 homes, and all associated infrastructure, services and • deliver homes where jobs can be facilities, planned to be started and created too; delivered as quickly as possible. • avoid unreasonable impacts on existing congested and sensitive The rationale behind our proposed transport networks; Garden Community is simple. • make full provision for local schools, healthcare and other community Two adjoining Councils have facilities and services, available to substantial housing and economic everyone; and development needs which are • have less impact on the rural increasingly difficult to meet character of Tandridge. sustainably in existing towns and villages surrounded by Green Belt. The emerging Local Plans stress that new development is needed soon. A large-scale new community in the Contrary to current assessment, we right location offers the most effective can start building new homes with all and sustainable, long-term solution. the key infrastructure from an Area Action Plan in place within four years of adoption of the local plan. No other proposal can match these advantages in this timescale. 5 A Parkland Centrepiece Our Development A Natural Bowl Framework for Strategic Transport Links Green Redhill Aerodrome Buffers Garden Community Our Development Framework has Green Buffers Strategic Transport Links evolved as we have listened to Strategic green buffers to maintain The site sits between major transport stakeholders. key functions of the Green Belt - corridors: to check the unrestricted sprawl • The M23 to the east The Site of large built-up areas; to prevent • The London-Brighton Railway Line Our Development Framework is neighbouring towns from merging to the west centred on redevelopment of Redhill into one another; to assist in • The A23 to the west Aerodrome and adjoining land. All the safeguarding the countryside from land is under a single promotion. encroachment; to preserve the setting By joining up strategic transport links and special character of historic towns. we create a location of unparalleled A Natural Bowl accessibility in East Surrey. Located within a natural bowl in the One Green Buffer will be to the landscape, the site is surrounded by south of South Nutfield, enhancing We are committed to funding and higher ground with wooded skylines woodland on the sloping ground to building a new junction on the and limited views of the development preserve the landscape setting of M23 and a strategic link road to area from surrounding land. As the village. The other will be to the join the A23. This will provide the extensive mown grassland, the west between the proposed new traffic capacity and public transport aerodrome has very limited landscape Garden Community and the Hospital links that the new and existing and wildlife value and limited current and Whitebushes. This will maintain communities will require. agricultural value. a green link from open land east of Royal Earlswood Park to open This link road will also substantially countryside towards Salfords. improve the accessibility of East Surrey Hospital, the designated Trauma Centre for Gatwick Airport and large sections of the M23 and A23 and a District General Hospital serving the communities of Reigate and Banstead and Tandridge. 6 Expansion of Five the Hospital Distinctive Neighbourhoods The District Centre A New A Central Business Vista Park New The Air Homes at Ambulance Whitebushes A Parkland Centrepiece Five Distinctive Neighbourhoods A New Business Park An extensive parkland through the There will be five distinct “walkable” The Development Framework heart of the Garden Community neighbourhoods, each of 1250 to 2000 proposes a new business park east centred on the Redhill Brook and homes and with day to day facilities of the M23 and served by the new Salfords Stream, landscaped for active and services within a 5 minute walk: junction. This will provide for a range leisure and recreation, and designed • One neighbourhood east and of employment opportunities in to manage storm water to avoid another west of the central vista. modern business accommodation. flooding in the future. • A third neighbourhood east of the Redhill Brook towards the M23. The Air Ambulance The link road will run parallel to the • A fourth neighbourhood to the The proposed business park will Salfords Stream. It will be designed as south east with homes distributed provide a new and permanent home a landscaped parkway to have minimal in enclaves among woodland for the Air Ambulance with excellent local impact, and will incorporate the blocks and belts that will create a access to the strategic road network means to integrate the parkland, new distinctive setting. and the East Surrey Hospital. homes and facilities on both sides. • A fifth neighbourhood lying to Expansion of the Hospital the south of the Salfords Stream The Development Framework makes The District Centre on gently rising open land with a full provision for the expansion of The vibrant heart of the Garden woodland skyline backdrop. Community focused around the East Surrey Hospital, plans for which Community Hub with a supermarket, New Homes at Whitebushes are being developed by the Surrey shops, restaurants and cafes, health There are two opportunities for and Sussex NHS Trust. These plans and community facilities, offices and modest developments close to include more bed spaces, expanded business support, higher density Whitebushes – to the southwest treatment services, key-worker homes, and a secondary school. All next to the railway and to the east housing and rationalised car parking close to the new link road to serve of Mason’s Bridge Road; these will and access.