Epsom Civic Society

The Society participated in the formal Regulation 19 Local Plan Consultation which closed on 6th February 2025.

One of the first acts of the newly-elected Labour government was to issue a new consultation on proposed revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), continuing a decade-long search by governments of both major parties to find… Read More

The last consultation to which the Society responded in 2023 concerned the Town Centre Masterplan, which is to form a key part of the evidence base for the draft Local Plan now hopefully to be published in January… Read More

Zenith Land proposal for 456 homes and new Laines HQ on SGN former gas works site in East Street

The Society’s response to yet another HMG Planning Consultation

The Society has responded at length to the Borough Council’s consultation, which ran from 28th May to 9th July, on their Draft Enforcement Plan, which purports to set out the way the Borough proposes to deal with potential… Read More

In their fourth planning consultation since August 2020, the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government launched a consultation on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and a proposal for a new National Model Design Code… Read More

On 3 December 2020, the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government launched a consultation, ‘Supporting housing delivery and public service infrastructure’ seeking views on proposals for:- a new national permitted development right for the change of use… Read More