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The Old Post Office, Pitland Street, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NP

14/P/00703Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 16 June 2014

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Erection of a new oak framed double garage following demolition of existing garage, conversion and extension of existing external toilet into a boiler room/store and insertion of two rooflights into the kitchen roof.

Received
22 April 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tillingbourne
  1. Received22 Apr
  2. Validated22 Apr
  3. Consult.23 May
  4. Target17 Jun
  5. Decided16 Jun

Decided in 55 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at The Old Post Office, Pitland Street, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NP. Guildford has handled 2,986 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 8 days quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 173 applications across Tillingbourne. We hold 1,886 applications in total for the RH5 postcode area.

85% of full 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
RH5 6NP
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shere

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 April 2014
Consultation expiry
23 May 2014
Consultation end
23 May 2014
Neighbour consultation start
25 April 2014
Neighbour consultation end
23 May 2014
Last date for comments
17 June 2014
Target decision date
17 June 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
2 May 2014
Advertisement expiry
23 May 2014
Site notice start
2 May 2014
Site notice end
23 May 2014

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
7

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: Holmbury St Mary
  • Green belt: Guildford
  • National Landscape (AONB): Surrey Hills
  • 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 (19)

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, 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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