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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.
4,709 approved · 903 refused · 245 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Maybankes, Tannery Lane, Send, Woking, GU23 7EF
Received 23 Jul 2025Shere Car Park, Upper Street, Shere, GU5 9HE
Received 23 Jul 20251 Nether Mount, Guildford, GU2 4LL
Received 23 Jul 2025Fairoaks, Normandy Common Lane, Normandy, Guildford, GU3 2AP
Received 23 Jul 2025Fairoaks, Normandy Common Lane, Normandy, Guildford, GU3 2AP
Received 23 Jul 20253 Waterside Close, Send, Woking, GU23 7BW
Received 23 Jul 2025Buren, Surrey Gardens, Effingham Junction, Leatherhead, KT24 5HF
Received 23 Jul 2025Orchard Cottage, Back Lane, East Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7SA
Received 23 Jul 202511 Cardwells Keep, Guildford, GU2 9PD
Received 23 Jul 2025Millwater Cottage, Mill Lane, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6QT
Received 23 Jul 2025Land east of Ash Railway Station & Foreman Road & south of, Guildford Road, Ash, GU12
Received 23 Jul 2025Sandalwood, Long Hill, The Sands, Farnham, GU10 1NG
Received 23 Jul 2025Birchwood, Perry Hill, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3RE
Received 23 Jul 2025Wynford, Glendene Avenue, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 5AY
Received 23 Jul 2025Sandalwood, Long Hill, The Sands, Farnham, GU10 1NG
Received 23 Jul 2025Land known as land lying to the west of Westwood Lane, Wanborough, Guildford and part of the land known as Plots 10a, 11 & 14, Lot A1, Westwood Lane, Wanborough, Guildford
Received 23 Jul 2025Chequers, The Street, West Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7TG
Received 23 Jul 20257 Hillview Crescent, Guildford, GU2 8BG
Received 24 Jul 2025Cedars, 5A Guildown Road, Guildford, GU2 4EW
Received 24 Jul 202513 Chantry View Road, Guildford, GU1 3XW
Received 24 Jul 2025Land to the rear of 139 Send Road, Send, Woking, GU23 7HN
Received 24 Jul 2025Visitors Car Park, RHS Garden Wisley, Royal Horticultural Society Gardens,, Wisley Lane, Wisley, GU23 6QB
Received 24 Jul 2025White Horse Yard, High Street, Ripley, GU23 6BB
Received 23 Jul 2025Artington Manor Farm, Old Portsmouth Road, Artington, Guildford, GU3 1LP
Received 24 Jul 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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