Save Claygate Green Belt is a campaign launched and run by ordinary, concerned Claygate residents. Our objective is to defend Claygate's unique character by opposing major developments on our Green Belt, and by showing decision-makers that Claygate residents strongly oppose plans to concrete it over.
We know that owners of land all around Claygate are carrying out surveys with the intention to develop their land. The government is facilitating them by stripping Green Belt protections from large parts of Green Belt land in and around Claygate. The Crown Estate recently confirmed it seeks to build up to 500 new homes on Loseberry Farm, a historic part of Claygate's countryside dating back to the Doomsday Book
We are not NIMBYs. We understand the housing crisis. But there are 1.4 million houses that have been approved but not built. Major developments on the Green Belt are an act of irreversible vandalism in these circumstances.
Developing the land to the west of our village, between the railway line and Arbrook Woods, together with other Green Belt sites immediately adjacent to Claygate, could involve 3,000 new dwellings. That is as many as Claygate has now.
Surveys have repeatedly shown that Claygate people see the separateness of Claygate, surrounded and defined by green land all round, as one of the features that makes Claygate so special. Green Belt development to the west of Claygate would join our village to Esher; to the north, it would submerge us into London.
To sign our petition, click here
To see the potential effect of development, see maps here
