Construction sites - Surrey Hills

Update 2025: This page was created in 2018. Since that time there has been a significant uplift in the number and size of housing developments proposed and granted in Alfold, Dunsfold and Cranleigh. There is now planning permission for an additional large housing development at Milford (Secretts) and proposals for 300+ homes on the remainder of the Milford Golf Course. There has also been significant unchecked growth in the number of homes at the Traveller sites at Stovolds Hill – now the biggest traveller site in Surrey. There is an extant permission for a £10m, 10,000sqm aviation museum to the south of Dunsfold airfield where projected visitor numbers are significant – all travelling by car.

The construction traffic, and later the commuter traffic, is destined for the various building sites around Cranleigh, Alfold, Dunsfold, Loxwood and Horsham. This is the list of planning approved new developments in just the Cranleigh area. For context there are also 200 given outline consent at Milford Golf Course, 262 at Aarons Hill in Godalming and developer proposals for maybe 200 at Secretts Milford and 132 more at Charterhouse.

This is what is driving the recent increases in traffic volumes – an increase that appears to be predominantly construction vehicles using the East-West route from the A3. The images below are a typical day in the life of Markwick Lane – but only seeing the vans from 6.30am to 6pm.

21-03-2019 06-32-36 East to Dunsfold Commercials

21-03-2019 06-32-36 East to Dunsfold Commercials