GP services in Badshot Lea lack capacity to cope with a proposed 100-home development, the NHS has warned.

The NHS is seeking £104,584 from the developer to expand healthcare facilities, saying there is “not sufficient existing primary healthcare capacity locally” to meet the extra demand.

The scheme on land west of Green Lane includes 100 homes, a 70-bed care home, an all-weather rugby pitch and other community facilities.

In its formal response to planning application WA/2026/01125, NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB) identified Farnham Park Health Group as the practice most likely to be affected.

Its assessment found the practice has less than half the clinical and supporting floorspace required under NHS guidance for its weighted patient list.

It has 442.8 square metres, compared with a calculated requirement of 1,047.98 square metres – a shortfall of approximately 605 square metres.

The ICB wants the developer’s contribution secured through a planning agreement to fund an extension or refurbishment of existing primary care facilities.

Farnham North councillor Catherine Powell said the findings confirmed concerns residents had raised for several years.

“This response confirms what many of us in Farnham already know, which is existing primary healthcare capacity hasn’t kept up with the demand generated by development,” she said.

Cllr Powell called for infrastructure constraints to be addressed through the Farnham Neighbourhood Plan and Waverley Local Plan. She argued that developments approved on appeal had not always given sufficient consideration to infrastructure.

“I really hope that Waverley Borough Council really starts to get a grip on the infrastructure that exists in Farnham that is already operating over its capacity and starts to take infrastructure constraints seriously,” she said.

She said the pressures extended beyond healthcare to sports pitches, sewage capacity and water supply.

“Something needs to be done urgently, and the ball is in Waverley Borough Council’s court.”

The ICB said that without the proposed healthcare mitigation, the development would not comply with Waverley’s infrastructure policy.