Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 Woking Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,173 approved · 631 refused · 0 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Whitecotes South Road Horsell Woking Surrey GU21 4JN
Received Not publishedHarington Kettlewell Hill Horsell Woking Surrey GU21 4JJ
Received Not published3 Abbot House Onslow Crescent Woking Surrey GU22 7AX
Received Not publishedTesting And Consultancy Unit A And B 126 High Street Old Woking Woking Surrey GU22 9JN
Received Not published9 Heythorp Close Woking Surrey GU21 3QL
Received Not published45 Common Close Horsell Woking Surrey GU21 4DB
Received Not publishedTesting And Consultancy Unit A And B 126 High Street Old Woking Woking Surrey GU22 9JN
Received Not publishedWoking Community Hospital 5 Heathside Road Woking Surrey GU22 7HS
Received Not published27 Greythorne Road Woking Surrey GU21 3PG
Received Not publishedCygnet Hospital Cygnet Hospital Redding Way Knaphill Woking Surrey GU21 2QS
Received Not publishedOak Chase 13 The Oaks West Byfleet Surrey KT14 6RL
Received Not publishedPearl Assurance House 28 High Street Woking Surrey GU21 6BW
Received Not published17 Lane End Drive Knaphill Woking Surrey GU21 2QQ
Received Not publishedBlenheim 9 Rosewood Woking Surrey GU22 7LE
Received Not publishedMidtrees 12 Fox Close Pyrford Woking Surrey GU22 8LP
Received Not published55 Old Woking Road West Byfleet Surrey KT14 6LF
Received Not published28 Robertson Court St Johns Woking Surrey GU21 8AG
Received Not publishedNottingham Court Robin Hood Road St Johns Woking Surrey
Received Not published5 Berkeley Gardens West Byfleet Surrey KT14 6JT
Received Not published29 Swallow Rise Knaphill Woking Surrey GU21 2LH
Received Not publishedLongstone Maybourne Rise Mayford Woking Surrey GU22 0SH
Received Not published226 High Road Byfleet West Byfleet Surrey KT14 7DD
Received Not publishedBarclays Town Gate House Church Street East Woking Surrey GU21 6AE
Received Not publishedCoplow Cottage Cinder Path Woking Surrey GU22 0ER
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Woking 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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