The development, known as Land West of Salfords, sits on a Heritage Farm (one of Surrey's oldest), according to its own website ladylandfarm.com and dates back to c1569.

The existing farmhouse of Ladyland Farm was built in the early years of the sixteenth century, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII. However, the farm is much older - records show that in medieval times King Alfred's grandson, Athelstane, granted Ladyland Manor to the Abbot of Chertsey. At the time that Chertsey Abbey was destroyed, Ladyland Manor was given by Henry VIII to Nicholas Carew.

Despite this rich history and recent evidence of the fields being farmed for crops, the Crest Nicholson brochure claims the land is currently designated as Green Belt but is not subject to other landscape or ecological designations that would prevent development from taking place.

Watch the video and decide for yourself:

This proposed development will connect Westvale Park, Horley and Salfords creating just the urban sprawl that Green Belt is designed to prevent. The developers plan to get around this by reclassifying it as "Grey Belt" or by keeping a thin strip of land behind where Lawsons Timber yard is today as a Green Belt - this land is subject to flooding and is unusable most of the year.

A supermarket application was recently refused in this very spot because it represented inappropriate development in the Green Belt where planners ruled that development should only take place where very special circumstances existed? 

In addition there are multiple other developments being proposed or approved in this area, see below map and planning applications page

When this historic Green Belt land dating back to 1569 is gone, it's gone forever