Developer Berkeley has won a planning appeal that will see it build 370 homes and a school in the heart of the metropolitan green belt in Surrey after an inspector agreed more homes could be built to pay for the school’s construction.

The appeal decision, handed down yesterday by inspector G D Jones, relates to an unallocated green belt site, North Lodge Farm, for 110 homes in Effingham, near Leatherhead, which Guildford council had refused to determine.

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