Elm Cottage Lodge, Ockham Road North, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NW
Approved on 13 April 2017
Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Certificate of lawfulness for an existing use to establish that the use of the property as a single dwelling house began more than four years before the date of this application.
- Received
- 21 February 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Guildford Borough Council
- Ward
- Lovelace
- ReceivedReceived21 Feb
- ValidatedValidated21 Feb
- Consult.Consultation31 Mar
- TargetTarget Date18 Apr
- DecidedDecided13 Apr
Decided in 51 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Elm Cottage Lodge, Ockham Road North, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NW. Guildford has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 12 days quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in the Ockham conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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
- 21 February 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 31 March 2017
- Consultation end
- 31 March 2017
- Neighbour consultation start
- 10 March 2017
- Neighbour consultation end
- 31 March 2017
- Last date for comments
- 18 April 2017
- Target decision date
- 18 April 2017
- Decision issued
- 18 April 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Melton Lodge, Rusper Road, Newdigate, Surrey, RH5 5BX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 3 March 2017
- Advertisement expiry
- 31 March 2017
- Site notice start
- 3 March 2017
- Site notice end
- 31 March 2017
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201831 May
Discharge of condition 3 of planning permission 17/P/02238
ApprovedDischarge of conditions18/D/00104 - 201812 Mar
Demolition of the existing garage with one-bedroom flat in the roof space, and erection of a three-bedroom…
ApprovedFull Application18/P/00504 - 201725 Oct
Conversion of existing garage with one-bedroom flat in the roof space to three-bedroom house, including…
ApprovedFull Application17/P/02238
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