DNP8: Community Facilities

The Neighbourhood Plan defines the following properties as community facilities and proposes they be submitted to Tandridge Council as candidates for Assets of Community Value¹:

1. The Old House at Home, The Plough and the Royal Oak Public Houses
2. St John’s Church, the Centenary Rooms and the Parish Room (Green Hut)
3. The Baptist Church
4. The Dormansland War Memorial Community Hall
5. Dormans Station
6. The Village Stores and Post Office (formerly known as Potter’s Stores)
7. The Colin Anderson Playing Fields
8. The Recreational Ground (including the tennis courts)
9. Dormansland Cricket Grounds and pavilion
10. Grounds of Greathead Manor (Historic Parks and Gardens)
11. Public amenity space at Newhache
12. Public amenity space at New Farthingdale
13. Public amenity space in the triangle Plough Road Dormans Road High Street
14. Public amenity space in front of Clayford
15. Station Fields adjacent public footpath to station (Local Green Space Report)

Proposals that will result in either the loss of or cause significant harm to a defined facility will be resisted, unless it can be clearly demonstrated that the operation of the facility, or the on-going delivery of the community value of the facility, is no longer financially viable.

Development proposals to sustain or extend the viable use of existing community facilities and the development of new facilities will be supported.

This policy identifies community facilities that will be protected from unnecessary loss or harm.

The Neighbourhood Plan Group have been collecting evidence on community facilities within Dormansland that are valued by the community and offer a valuable resource to support community life.

The purpose of this policy is therefore to secure these assets in the long term for the benefit of the parish and to apply a test of viability, which otherwise would not exist, to give added protection to them.