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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.
4,879 approved · 944 refused · 259 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Apr 2023 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Broadbridges, The Avenue, Compton, Guildford, GU3 1JN
Received 12 Mar 2026Eversleigh, Buckingham Close, Guildford, GU1 1TR
Received 12 Mar 202620 Beech Grove, Guildford, GU2 7UZ
Received 13 Mar 202618 Semaphore Road, Guildford, GU1 3PT
Received 13 Mar 202689 Merrow Woods, Guildford, GU1 2LJ
Received 13 Mar 2026Hurst View, Burdenshott Road, Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3EL
Received 13 Mar 20265 Oaklands Close, Shalford, Guildford, GU4 8JL
Received 13 Mar 2026Liddington Hall East, Liddington Hall Drive, Guildford, GU3 3AD
Received 13 Mar 2026Four Oaks, Shophouse Lane, Albury, Guildford, GU5 9ET
Received 13 Mar 2026Pearl Rock, Nightingale Road, Ash, Guildford, GU12 6DD
Received 13 Mar 202668 Epsom Road, Guildford, GU1 3PB
Received 13 Mar 2026Riverway Industrial Estate, Old Portsmouth Road, Artington, Guildford, GU3 1LZ
Received 13 Mar 2026Glade Mews, Guildford, GU1 2FB
Received 13 Mar 2026The Herons, Poplar Road, Shalford, Guildford, GU4 8DJ
Received 13 Mar 2026Vaughan House, 5-7 Chertsey Street, Guildford, GU1 4HD
Received 13 Mar 2026Vaughan House, 5-7 Chertsey Street, Guildford, GU1 4HD
Received 13 Mar 2026Eashing Farm, Eashing Lane, Godalming, GU7 2QB
Received 13 Mar 20265 Farm Lane, Send, Woking, GU23 7AT
Received 13 Mar 2026Maudy Larks, Ockham Road South, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 6QE
Received 13 Mar 2026Wates House, University Of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH
Received 13 Mar 2026Red Bank, Oakwood Close, East Horsley, Leatherhead, KT24 6QG
Received 13 Mar 202625 Longfield Road, Ash, Guildford, GU12 6NA
Received 16 Mar 2026High Trees, Horseshoe Lane, Ash Vale, Guildford, GU12 5LJ
Received 16 Mar 202629 Weylea Avenue, Guildford, GU4 7YN
Received 16 Mar 2026Records 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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