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Garage adjacent to Elm Cottage, Ockham Road North, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NW

12/P/01916Cert. of Lawful. of Existing Use or Dev.Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 8 January 2013

Council decision: Part Approved, Part RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for an existing use, to establish whether the garage has been used as a car maintenance workshop with car storage for more than ten years, in breach of condition 9 of 97/P/01309.

Received
4 September 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lovelace
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated13 Nov
  3. Consult.14 Dec
  4. Target8 Jan
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Garage adjacent to Elm Cottage, Ockham Road North, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NW. Guildford has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 126 days, 9 weeks longer than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in the Ockham conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 665 applications in total for the GU23 postcode area.

80% of amendment applications at Guildford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GU23 6NW
Application type
Cert. of Lawful. of Existing Use or Dev.
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ockham

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 November 2012
Consultation expiry
14 December 2012
Consultation end
14 December 2012
Neighbour consultation start
13 December 2012
Neighbour consultation end
14 December 2012
Last date for comments
8 January 2013
Target decision date
8 January 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ton Farm, Clifford, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR3 5HL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
23 November 2012
Advertisement expiry
14 December 2012
Site notice start
23 November 2012
Site notice end
14 December 2012

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Ockham
  • Green belt: Guildford
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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