Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Elmbridge Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,129 approved · 418 refused · 53 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Dec 2014 to 16 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
119 Silverdale Avenue Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 1EQ
Received 30 Jul 202640 Severn Drive Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 3BH
Received 30 Jul 20265 Rythe Road Claygate Esher Surrey KT10 9DG
Received 27 Oct 2025166 High Street West Molesey Surrey KT8 2LX
Received 19 Feb 2026Land North Of 14 River Avenue Thames Ditton Surrey KT7 0RS
Received 11 Dec 2025Land Rear of 78 Sunbury Lane Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 2HU
Received 11 Dec 202520 Bramble Rise Cobham Surrey KT11 2HP
Received 20 Nov 20251 Oatlands Close Weybridge Surrey KT13 9ED
Received 27 Aug 20263 Saxonbury Gardens Long Ditton Surbiton Surrey KT6 5HF
Received 27 Aug 2026Site Of 35 New Road Esher Surrey KT10 9NU
Received 10 Apr 2026Land at St Andrew's Primary School Lockhart Road Cobham KT11 2AX
Received 22 Jul 202627 High Pine Close Weybridge Surrey KT13 9EB
Received 29 Jun 202614A Monks Avenue West Molesey Surrey KT8 2HD
Received 6 Aug 2026Manor Farm Stoke D'Abernon Surrey KT11 3PX
Received 1 Jul 2026Weylands Old Treatment Works Molesey Road Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 3PB
Received 26 Nov 202550 High Street Oxshott Leatherhead Surrey KT22 0JP
Received 20 Feb 20269 York Road Weybridge Surrey KT13 9DX
Received 3 Aug 2026Footpath Outside Unit 8A Heart Shopping Centre Walton-On-Thames KT12 1GH
Received 26 Jan 202670 Heathside and Land to the West of Heathside Esher Surrey KT10 9TF
Received 9 Mar 20267 Mercer Close Thames Ditton Surrey KT7 0BS
Received 9 Mar 2026Mattone House 2A Lebanon Drive Cobham Surrey KT11 2PR
Received 26 Mar 2026S/O 1 Northfield Road Cobham KT11 1JL
Received 19 Nov 2025Flat 1 2 Park Hill Drive Cobham Surrey KT11 2FN
Received 17 Jul 202524 Oaks Way Long Ditton Surbiton Surrey KT6 5DS
Received 3 Nov 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Elmbridge Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
Check collection coverage