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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 Guildford Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,567 approved · 876 refused · 239 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Apr 2023 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Wisley Airfield, Hatch Lane, Ockham, GU23 6NU
Received 10 Mar 2025Land At Wisley Airfield, Hatch Lane, Ockham, GU23 6NU
Received 10 Mar 2025Land At Wisley Airfield, Hatch Lane, Ockham, GU23 6NU
Received 10 Mar 202525 Chinthurst Park, Shalford, Guildford, GU4 8JH
Received 10 Mar 2025Moonrakers, Vicarage Lane, Send, Woking, GU23 7JN
Received 10 Mar 20257 Maori Road, Guildford, GU1 2EG
Received 5 Mar 2025The Bothy, Forest Road, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 5ER
Received 10 Mar 2025Glendene, Glendene Avenue, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 5AY
Received 11 Mar 2025Wisteria, Send Marsh Road, Ripley, Woking, GU23 6JB
Received 11 Mar 2025Field west of Farthingworth, Cranmore Lane, West Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 6BY
Received 11 Mar 202592 The Mount, Guildford, GU2 4JB
Received 11 Mar 2025Hill Place Farm, 132 Oak Hill, Wood Street Village, Guildford, GU3 3ET
Received 11 Mar 2025Rectory Place, 2A Portsmouth Road, Guildford, GU2 4DG
Received 11 Mar 2025Rectory Place, 2A Portsmouth Road, Guildford, GU2 4DG
Received 11 Mar 2025Wild Wood, Boughton Hall Avenue, Send, Woking, GU23 7DD
Received 11 Mar 2025Box Cottage, Westwood Lane, Normandy, Guildford, GU3 2JQ
Received 11 Mar 202525 Papercourt Lane, Ripley, Woking, GU23 6DS
Received 11 Mar 2025Merrybrook, Horsham Road, Abinger Hammer, Dorking, RH5 6RD
Received 11 Mar 2025Jacobs Well Village Hall, Jacobs Well Road, Jacobs Well
Received 11 Mar 202515 Weston Road, Guildford, GU2 8AU
Received 12 Mar 202520 Sutherland Avenue, Jacobs Well, Guildford, GU4 7QX
Received 12 Mar 202589D Woodbridge Road, Guildford, GU1 4QD
Received 12 Mar 202550 Quarry Road, Hurtmore, Godalming, GU7 2RW
Received 12 Mar 2025Beech Cottage, Upper Street, Shere, Guildford, GU5 9JA
Received 12 Mar 2025Records 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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