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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.
4,629 approved · 880 refused · 243 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23 Saffron Platt, Guildford, GU2 9XX
Received 14 Apr 20259 Paddocks Road, Guildford, GU4 7LL
Received 14 Apr 202533 Hornbeam Road, Guildford, GU1 1LT
Received 14 Apr 2025208 Worplesdon Road, Guildford, GU2 9UY
Received 14 Apr 2025St Johns The Evangelist Church, Stoke Road, Guildford
Received 14 Apr 2025Urn Field, Downside Road, Guildford, GU4 8PH
Received 14 Apr 20251 and 2, Manor Farm Cottages, Elstead Road, Seale, Farnham, GU10 1HX
Received 11 Apr 20255 Rapleys Field, Pirbright, Woking, GU24 0LT
Received 14 Apr 202590 and Land Rear of 92 Potters Lane, Send, Woking, GU23 7AL
Received 14 Apr 2025Land at Surrey Research Park, Guildford, GU2 9AU
Received 14 Apr 2025Cedars Court, The Cedars, Guildford, GU1 1YZ
Received 14 Apr 202548 Woodbridge Hill, Guildford, GU2 9AB
Received 15 Apr 2025Connemara, The Green, Pirbright, Woking, GU24 0JE
Received 15 Apr 2025Guildford and Godalming Rugby Football Club Ground, Guildford Road, Godalming
Received 15 Apr 202532 Fairborne Way, Guildford, GU2 9GB
Received 15 Apr 2025The New Cottage, Bailes Lane, Normandy, Guildford, GU3 2AX
Received 15 Apr 202540 Portsmouth Road, Guildford, GU2 4DU
Received 16 Apr 2025Capricorn, 5 Old Portsmouth Road, Artington, Guildford, GU3 1LX
Received 16 Apr 20257 Manor Lodge, Guildford, GU2 9NH
Received 16 Apr 2025First Ash Vale Scouts Headquarters, 6 Wood Street, Ash Vale, Guildford, GU12 5JG
Received 16 Apr 2025Rack Close, The Spinning Walk, Shere, Guildford, GU5 9HN
Received 16 Apr 2025Upper Unstead Farm Bungalow, Upper Unstead Farm, Unstead Lane, Bramley, Guildford, GU5 0BT
Received 16 Apr 2025119 Portsmouth Road, Guildford, GU2 4EB
Received 16 Apr 202528 Markenfield Road, Guildford, GU1 4PB
Received 17 Apr 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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