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Dowgill, Woodhouse Lane, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NN

24/P/00763Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 July 2024

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application under section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) for a variation of Condition 3 (limits to use of garage) to allow the garage to be used for purposes ancillary to the occupation of the dwelling at Dowgill on planning permission 88/P/00529 approved 09/05/1988 for the erection of a detached double garage.

Received
16 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tillingbourne
Agent
GH Planning
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.15 Jun
  4. Target11 Jul
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Dowgill, Woodhouse Lane, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NN. Guildford has handled 2,986 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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 6NN
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shere

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2024
Consultation expiry
15 June 2024
Consultation start
24 May 2024
Consultation end
15 June 2024
Neighbour consultation start
21 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
15 June 2024
Last date for comments
11 July 2024
Target decision date
11 July 2024
Decision issued
12 July 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
GH Planning
Agent address
The Long Barn (SBA), High House Farm, Gomshall Lane, Shere, GU5 9BU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
15 June 2024
Site notice end
15 June 2024

Appeal

Appeal reference
Not specified

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13052617
Comments
0
Documents
6

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

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    15 Jul

    Non-material amendment to planning application 25/P/00116

    ApprovedNon-material amendment25/N/00075

Source: Guildford

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