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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.
4,636 approved · 881 refused · 243 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land rear of Chicane and Quintons, Ockham Road North, East Horsley, KT24 6PU
Received 28 Apr 2025Halfpenny House, Halfpenny Lane, Chilworth, Guildford, GU4 8PZ
Received 28 Apr 20251 St Marys Terrace, Mill Lane, Guildford, GU1 3TZ
Received 28 Apr 202526 Madrid Road, Guildford, GU2 7NU
Received 29 Apr 202520 Pond Meadow, Guildford, GU2 8LF
Received 29 Apr 202537 Great Goodwin Drive, Guildford, GU1 2TX
Received 29 Apr 2025St Martin's Church, Ockham Road South, East Horsley
Received 29 Apr 202572 Epsom Road, Guildford, GU1 2BH
Received 29 Apr 2025Halfacre, Silkmore Lane, West Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 6JB
Received 29 Apr 2025Land at Dennis Way, Slyfield Industrial Estate, Guildford, GU1 1AF
Received 29 Apr 2025Royal Grammar School, High Street, Guildford, GU1 3BB
Received 29 Apr 2025Wildfield, West Flexford Lane, Wanborough, Guildford, GU3 2JW
Received 29 Apr 2025The Paddock, 5 Paddock Grove, Effingham, KT24 5QA
Received 30 Apr 202578 Oak Hill, Wood Street Village, Guildford, GU3 3ES
Received 30 Apr 20255 Station Parade, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 6QN
Received 30 Apr 20255 Howard Road, Effingham Junction, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 5HX
Received 30 Apr 202580 Cabell Road, Guildford, GU2 8JF
Received 30 Apr 20256 Elm Hill Bungalows, Guildford Road, Normandy, Guildford, GU3 2JA
Received 30 Apr 2025Little Warren Farm, One Tree Hill Road, Guildford, GU4 8PL
Received 30 Apr 2025Former Bus Depot and 7 Ridgemount, Guildford, GU2 7TH
Received 30 Apr 2025Flat 8, 69 Epsom Road, Guildford, GU1 3LD
Received 1 May 202540 Hazel Avenue, Guildford, GU1 1NS
Received 1 May 2025Homelands, 101 Potters Lane, Send, Woking, GU23 7AW
Received 1 May 2025Homelands, 101 Potters Lane, Send, Woking, GU23 7AW
Received 1 May 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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