Campaigners fighting to save the former home of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have called on the local authority to reject plans for a residential development on the site.

Waverley Borough Council will decide whether to award planning permission for the construction of three separate dwellings on the site of the Undershaw property in Hindhead, Surrey. Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, lived at the historic house during the time he wrote one of his most famous novels - The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Campaigners fighting to stop the residential development have put forward alternative plans for the future of the property, which would include the restoration of Undershaw and enable it to be opened to the public.