Objections to an outline planning application to build some 650 homes on the site of Sutton Green Golf Club are pouring in to Woking Borough Council.

The application (PLAN/2026/0042) has drawn more than a hundred objections in little over a week.

A range of concerns have been raised but common themes include the site being green belt, an over-density of development, traffic volume and heightened stress on local infrastructure, such as GP surgeries and schools.

Woking MP Will Forster has also expressed his opposition to the Sutton Green proposals.

“On top of concerns about the environmental and infrastructure impact, this application is poorly timed,” Mr Forster said.

“The borough council has started to draft a new local plan, in which locally elected councillors and local people can decide where we build the homes we need. It is wrong for developers to pre-empt that fair and democratic process and take away the right of Woking constituents to shape the future of our area.

“The potential developers of Sutton Green Golf Club should withdraw their speculative application and wait for the local plan to design where we build.”

Mr Forster has also raised in Parliament the subject of cumulative development, citing plans to build at Saunders Lane in Mayford and ongoing and planned developments on Egley Road, as well as the Sutton Green application.

A 74-page planning statement prepared by Iceni Projects Limited on behalf of Quinn Estates in support of the application, states: “The scheme will deliver much-needed family housing in a sustainable and logical location for growth, while also securing significant public benefits – including the provision of 50 per cent affordable housing, specialist housing for older people, supporting service infrastructure and substantial network of green infrastructure throughout the site to create an outstanding place to live.”