A Surrey council which sought to delay work on its local plan in light of recent government policy changes has been told by a planning inspector the draft strategy is unsound and will have to be scrapped.

The decision by the planning inspector in the examination of Tandridge council’s draft plan brings to a close a four-year examination – one of the longest in England – and comes despite the council claiming it still wants to get its plan, on which it has spent over £3m, adopted.

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