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3 Applegarth Avenue, Guildford, GU2 8LZ

23/P/01000Cert. of Lawful. of Existing Use or Dev.Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 19 December 2023

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for existing use to establish whether a dwelling house being used as a C4, house of multiple occupation for 5 people falls under permitted development.

Received
9 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westborough
  1. Received9 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jun
  3. Consult.29 Jul
  4. Target22 Dec
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 193 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 3 Applegarth Avenue, Guildford, GU2 8LZ. Guildford has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 193 days, 19 weeks longer than Guildford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Westborough. We hold 831 applications in total for the GU2 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
GU2 8LZ
Application type
Cert. of Lawful. of Existing Use or Dev.
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Westborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 June 2023
Consultation expiry
29 July 2023
Consultation start
7 July 2023
Consultation end
29 July 2023
Neighbour consultation start
4 July 2023
Neighbour consultation end
29 July 2023
Last date for comments
22 December 2023
Target decision date
22 December 2023
Decision issued
21 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Union4Planning
Agent address
18 Farnham Road, Guildford, GU1 4XA

Planning decision

Statutory period
196 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
29 July 2023
Site notice end
29 July 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12192763
Comments
0
Documents
7

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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