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Woodhouse Place, Horsham Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NL

24/P/00635Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 2 July 2024

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for single storey front and rear extensions, partial conversion of garage to habitable accommodation, increase in roof height and insertion of four dormer windows and one rooflight to allow a loft conversion with changes to materials and fenestration.

Received
25 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tillingbourne
Agent
Simon Best Associates Ltd
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated25 Apr
  3. Consult.25 May
  4. Target3 Jul
  5. Decided2 Jul

Decided in 68 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a loft conversion at Woodhouse Place, Horsham Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NL. Guildford has handled 134 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 5 days longer than Guildford's typical decision time. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 175 applications across Tillingbourne. We hold 1,886 applications in total for the RH5 postcode area.

90% of heritage 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 6NL
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Shere

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 April 2024
Consultation expiry
25 May 2024
Consultation start
3 May 2024
Consultation end
25 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
25 May 2024
Last date for comments
3 July 2024
Target decision date
3 July 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Simon Best Associates Ltd
Architect profile
SIMON BEST ASSOCIATES LIMITED
Agent address
The Long Barn, High House Farm, Shere, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 9BU

Planning decision

Statutory period
69 days

Publicity

Last advertised
3 May 2024
Advertisement expiry
25 May 2024
Site notice start
3 May 2024
Site notice end
25 May 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12915027
Comments
0
Documents
12

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
  • 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 (20)

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, 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

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© 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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  4. 2024
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