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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.
4,679 approved · 896 refused · 244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
40 Eagle Road, Guildford, GU1 4HY
Received 17 Jun 2025Old River Cottage, Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3XJ
Received 17 Jun 202524 Vernon Way, Guildford, GU2 8DD
Received 17 Jun 202515 Scillonian Road, Guildford, GU2 7PS
Received 18 Jun 2025Oakdale, Woodland Drive, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 5AN
Received 18 Jun 2025Capel Cottage, Pirbright Road, Normandy, Guildford, GU3 2HU
Received 18 Jun 202559 Pewley Way, Guildford, GU1 3PZ
Received 18 Jun 20253 Milton Grange, Ash Vale, Guildford, GU12 5DU
Received 18 Jun 2025Driftway Cottage, Dorking Road, Gomshall, Guildford, GU5 9NY
Received 18 Jun 202510 Scarlet Road, Tongham, Farnham, GU10 1GL
Received 18 Jun 2025Hester's Yard, 116 Oak Hill, Wood Street Village, Guildford, GU3 3ES
Received 18 Jun 2025Weyside Urban Village (Slyfield regeneration Programme), Slyfield Green, Guildford, GU1
Received 18 Jun 2025Land known as 84 and 84A Nightingale Road, Guildford, GU1 1EP
Received 18 Jun 20258 The Paddock, Guildford, GU1 2RQ
Received 19 Jun 2025Red Rose Cottage, Ockham Road South, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 6RL
Received 19 Jun 202586 Haydon Place, Guildford, GU1 4LR and 86A Haydon Place, Guildford GU1 4LR
Received 17 Jun 202522 Litchfield Way, Guildford, GU2 7QH
Received 19 Jun 202551 Raymond Crescent, Guildford, GU2 7SU
Received 19 Jun 202522 Woodruff Avenue, Guildford, GU1 1XT
Received 19 Jun 2025The Priestley Centre, 10 Priestley Road, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, GU2 7YP
Received 19 Jun 2025Leverton, Broadwater Rise, Guildford, GU1 2LA
Received 19 Jun 2025Hedgehog, Suffield Lane, Puttenham, Guildford, GU3 1BQ
Received 19 Jun 2025Ashleigh House, Drovers Way, Ash Green, Guildford, GU12 6HZ
Received 20 Jun 2025285 Vale Road, Ash Vale, Guildford, GU12 5LA
Received 20 Jun 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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