内容摘要：The OfS report acknowledges that the scale of change needed will not be easy.

The OfS report acknowledges that the scale of change needed will not be easy.

"It's horrifically expensive as an area."Concerns raised by residents via the council's planning portal included the "very bad precedent" that the development could set in the village given the site's green belt classification.

Others mentioned the "horrendous" traffic situation in Leatherhead Road, with both the M25 and the A3 nearby, and that the new homes may "considerably worsen the situation".Mr Estwick said he understood frustrations regarding transport and that plans would include mitigations like car clubs, cycle paths and better footpaths to the village.Plans also include 32 acres of publicly accessible green space.

Elmbridge borough, which includes the towns of Esher, Cobham and Walton, was previously labelled one of the "" by a government planning inspector.

The council was told by the inspector to

, setting out where and when homes will be built in the borough, including a request to provide more affordable housing.However, some economists have told the BBC that the government is at least partly to blame for the current sell off.

"It's been a relatively dramatic couple of weeks for the gilts markets and for the pound," Nina Skero, chief executive of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, told the BBC."It's been somewhat of a worldwide phenomenon, but it seems to be particularly intense in the UK."

She pinned the UK's specific problems on a "delayed response to the very heavy tax and spend in the Budget", adding that "we're going to have to wait some months, maybe even some quarters, to see the real impact".Economists and retailers have said measures introduced in the Budget, such as the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions,