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August 8, 2026

675 home plans for Surrey farmland site long earmarked for development revealed to public

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Plans could also see a new school built on the site
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675 home plans for Surrey farmland site long earmarked for development revealed to public

675 home plans for Surrey farmland site long earmarked for development revealed to public

• Plans could also see a new school built on the site

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• Surrey’s future strategic authority could retain a share of locally generated income tax and business rates under government plans to transfer more money and decision-making from Whitehall to England’s regions.

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RHS Garden Wisley grew from George Ferguson Wilson's 'Oakwood Experimental Garden' of 1878 and was given to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1903.

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