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St Marthas Cottage, 77 Dorking Road, Chilworth, Guildford, GU4 8NP

20/P/00933C of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 August 2020

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for a proposed development to establish whether the conversion of the existing garage into a habitable space, including changes to fenestration, would be lawful.

Received
10 June 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tillingbourne
  1. Received10 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.7 Jul
  4. Target11 Aug
  5. Decided11 Aug

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at St Marthas Cottage, 77 Dorking Road, Chilworth, Guildford, GU4 8NP. Guildford has handled 651 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 173 applications across Tillingbourne. We hold 957 applications in total for the GU4 postcode area.

81% of outline 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
GU4 8NP
Application type
C of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St. Martha

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2020
Consultation expiry
7 July 2020
Consultation end
7 July 2020
Neighbour consultation end
7 July 2020
Last date for comments
11 August 2020
Target decision date
11 August 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
7 July 2020
Site notice end
7 July 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08789500
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.

  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: Guildford

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