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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Guildford Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,318 approved · 843 refused · 225 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Apr 2023 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rustles, Furze Hill, Seale, Farnham, GU10 1PS
Received 8 Oct 202418 Fort Road, Guildford, GU1 3TD
Received 8 Oct 2024Anne's Cottage, 5 Swaynes Lane, Guildford, GU1 2XX
Received 8 Oct 2024Land at the rear of 75 Glaziers Lane, Normandy, GU3 2EA
Received 8 Oct 202441 London Road, Guildford, GU1 1SW
Received 8 Oct 2024Firbank Cottage, 1 Guildown Road, Guildford, GU2 4EW
Received 8 Oct 202416 Cheselden Road, Guildford, GU1 3SB
Received 9 Oct 2024Long Copse, The Street, West Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7ST
Received 9 Oct 202457 Raymond Crescent, Guildford, GU2 7SU
Received 9 Oct 2024Middlebriars, Priorsfield Road, Hurtmore, Godalming, GU7 2RG
Received 9 Oct 20241 Kingsfield, Albury, Guildford, GU5 9ED
Received 9 Oct 2024Ashenhurst, Orchard Close, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 5EZ
Received 9 Oct 2024Waterside Farm Cottage, Wharf Lane, Send, GU23 7EJ
Received 9 Oct 2024Chequers, The Street, West Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7TG
Received 9 Oct 2024Perham, Old Lane Gardens, Cobham, KT11 1NN
Received 10 Oct 20242 Harts Gardens, Guildford, GU2 9QA
Received 10 Oct 20246 Cunningham Avenue, Guildford, GU1 2PE
Received 10 Oct 2024Bramley Oak Academy, Horsham Road, Shalford, Guildford, GU5 0BJ
Received 10 Oct 2024Hill House, 4 Longdown Road, Guildford, GU4 8PP
Received 10 Oct 202488-90 The Street, Tongham, Farnham, GU10 1AA
Received 10 Oct 20244 Hillbrow Close, Wood Street Village, Guildford, GU3 3DF
Received 10 Oct 2024Friars Gorse, 22 Queen Street, Gomshall, Guildford, GU5 9LU
Received 11 Oct 2024Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3UX
Received 11 Oct 2024Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3UX
Received 11 Oct 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Guildford 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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