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Surrey County Council Merrow Depot, Merrow Lane, Guildford, GU4 7BQ

23/P/00851C of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 July 2023

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness to establish whether the proposed erection of a Papilio Mini Solar Car Park and EV Charging Hub at Merrow Depot which will provide 12 spaces for electric vehicle charging is lawful.

Received
19 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Merrow
  1. Received19 May
  2. Validated7 Jun
  3. Consult.2 Aug
  4. Target2 Aug
  5. Decided21 Jul

Decided in 44 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Surrey County Council Merrow Depot, Merrow Lane, Guildford, GU4 7BQ. Guildford has handled 651 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Merrow. 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 7BQ
Application type
C of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Merrow

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 June 2023
Last date for comments
2 August 2023
Target decision date
2 August 2023
Decision issued
24 July 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Vail Williams
Agent address
Crown House, Crown Square, Woking, GU216HR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12154372
Comments
0
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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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