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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.
4,762 approved · 917 refused · 249 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Farnborough Airport, Farnborough Road, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 6XA
Received 12 Sept 2025Effingham Lodge Farm, Lower Road, Effingham, Leatherhead, KT24 5JP
Received 30 Sept 2025Artington Manor Farm, Old Portsmouth Road, Artington, Guildford, GU3 1LP
Received 30 Sept 2025Rosendene, Coombe Lane, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3PF
Received 2 Oct 2025Rosendene, Coombe Lane, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3PF
Received 2 Oct 2025Rosendene, Coombe Lane, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3PF
Received 2 Oct 2025Rosendene, Coombe Lane, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3PF
Received 2 Oct 20252 Austen Road, Guildford, GU1 3NP
Received 1 Oct 2025Rosendene, Coombe Lane, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3PF
Received 2 Oct 2025Plots 20A, 20B, 20C and A, Wanborough Fields, west of, Westwood Lane, Wanborough, Guildford, GU3 2JR
Received 1 Oct 202510 Woodway, Guildford, GU1 2TF
Received 2 Oct 2025Lilly Cottage, Mount Pleasant, West Horsley, KT24 6BJ
Received 6 Oct 2025St Marys Garden, Perry Hill, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3RE
Received 2 Oct 202579 Portsmouth Road, Guildford, GU2 4BS
Received 2 Oct 2025Rosendene, Coombe Lane, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3PF
Received 2 Oct 2025Woodland at the North side of Botany Hill, The Sands, Farnham, Surrey GU10 1LZ
Received 30 Sept 2025Beaufort House, 31 Chertsey Street, Guildford, GU1 1HA
Received 30 Sept 2025Regent House, Ward Street, Guildford, GU1 4LH
Received 25 Sept 2025Hazelhurst Farm, Tithebarns Lane, Send, Woking, GU23 7LE
Received 6 Oct 202587 The Street, West Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 6BG
Received 2 Oct 20251 Elmside, Guildford, GU2 7SH
Received 2 Oct 202572 Northway, Guildford, GU2 9SG
Received 2 Oct 2025The Garden House, 9 Bradstone Brook, Shalford, Guildford, GU4 8HE
Received 2 Oct 2025Aston Cottage, Send Hill, Send, Woking, GU23 7HR
Received 2 Oct 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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