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Watchmoor Cottage, Holmbury Hill Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NP

21/P/02526Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 14 June 2022

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Alterations to existing stone clad retaining wall at road level and new works to provide a new pedestrian safe entrance / exit to the property. Proposed works comprise building a new curved external access stair and wall leading up to the entrance level of the property. Remodelled existing garage with new set back doors and tiled roof canopy above. New terrace structural slab to existing garage. New Entrance door to the house. New Entrance timber framed porch.

Received
3 December 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tillingbourne
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.4 Feb
  4. Target28 Jan
  5. Decided14 Jun

Decided in 193 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a porch at Watchmoor Cottage, Holmbury Hill Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NP. Guildford has handled 2,986 applications of this type. This one was decided in 193 days, 19 weeks longer than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in the Holmbury St Mary conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 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
3 December 2021
Consultation expiry
4 February 2022
Consultation end
4 February 2022
Neighbour consultation start
5 January 2022
Neighbour consultation end
4 February 2022
Last date for comments
28 January 2022
Target decision date
28 January 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
Taylor Made Space
Agent address
6 Wayside Cottages, Horsham Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 January 2022
Advertisement expiry
4 February 2022
Site notice start
14 January 2022
Site notice end
4 February 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10450862
Comments
0
Documents
19

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.

Source: Guildford

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