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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1,129 approved · 418 refused · 53 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Lion Cottage 37 Tilt Road Cobham Surrey KT11 3EZ
Received 30 Mar 202692 Angel Road Thames Ditton Surrey KT7 0AZ
Received 17 Jun 202650 Churchfield Road Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 2SY
Received 9 Mar 2026Consort House 1 Princes Road Weybridge Surrey KT13 9TU
Received 17 Jul 202692 Down Street West Molesey Surrey KT8 2TE
Received 2 Feb 202624 Grafton Way West Molesey Surrey KT8 2NW
Received 16 Jun 20261 Esher Place Avenue Esher Surrey KT10 8PU
Received 5 Jan 20266 Fairmile Lane Cobham Surrey KT11 2DJ
Received 17 Oct 2025The Fairmile Portsmouth Road Cobham Surrey KT11 1BW
Received 27 Feb 2026212 Terrace Road Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 2EE
Received 6 May 2026Brownacres Sports Ground Walton Lane Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 1QP
Received 29 Apr 202611 Oak Road Cobham Surrey KT11 3AZ
Received 9 Feb 2026Stoke Lodge Steels Lane Oxshott Leatherhead Surrey KT22 0QH
Received 5 Mar 2026Site of Former Homebase New Zealand Avenue Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 1XA
Received 11 Aug 202631 Kent Road East Molesey Surrey KT8 9JZ
Received 19 Aug 202549 High Street Esher Surrey KT10 9RH
Received 12 Dec 2025Mercedes Benz World Brooklands Drive Weybridge Surrey KT13 0SL
Received 24 Apr 20267 Birds Hill Road Oxshott Leatherhead Surrey KT22 0NJ
Received 8 May 2026Fairways West Miles Lane Cobham Surrey KT11 2EA
Received 2 Apr 202610 Drynham Park Weybridge Surrey KT13 9RE
Received 28 Apr 2026Land at Hersham Library, Molesey Road, Hersham, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, KT12 4RF
Received 13 May 2026Land by Clayton Road, Kingston Bypass (A309), Esher Bypass (A3) and Hook Park
Received 24 Oct 20256 Tower Grove Weybridge Surrey KT13 9LX
Received 1 Dec 202560 Molesey Road Hersham Walton-On-Thames Surrey KT12 4RG
Received 15 Oct 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.
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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.
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