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St Johns The Evangelist Church, Stoke Road, Guildford, GU1 1HB

24/P/01188Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 3 February 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Proposed replacement of a side door and new path.

Received
7 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Stoke
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated20 Aug
  3. Consult.11 Oct
  4. Target7 Feb
  5. Decided3 Feb

Decided in 167 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at St Johns The Evangelist Church, Stoke Road, Guildford, GU1 1HB. Guildford has handled 2,986 applications of this type. This one was decided in 180 days, 17 weeks longer than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across Stoke. We hold 772 applications in total for the GU1 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed replacement external door to Stoughton Chapel would have a less than substantial harm to the historic fabric of St Johns The Evangelist Church, a grade II* listed building. The public benefits would not outweigh the harm. Accordingly, the proposal would not comply with Historic England’s draft Advice Note Climate Change and Historic Building Adaptation (2023), policy D3 of Guildford Borough Local Plan: Strategy and Sites 2015—2034 (LPSS) adopted 25 April 2019, policies D18, D19, D23 of Guildford Borough Local Plan: Development Management Policies (LPDMP) adopted 22 March 2023 and chapters 2, 14 and 16 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) 2024.
  2. The proposed replacement external door to Stoughton Chapel, due to its out of character design, would have an unacceptable impact on the character and visual amenity of the area. Accordingly, it would not comply with policy D1 of Guildford Borough Local Plan: Strategy and Sites 2015—2034 (LPSS) adopted 25 April 2019, policies D18, D19, D23 of Guildford Borough Local Plan: Development Management Policies (LPDMP) adopted 22 March 2023 and chapters 2, 14 and 16 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) 2024.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
GU1 1HB
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Stoke

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 August 2024
Consultation expiry
11 October 2024
Consultation start
13 September 2024
Consultation end
11 October 2024
Neighbour consultation start
7 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
11 October 2024
Last date for comments
7 February 2025
Target decision date
7 February 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
171 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 September 2024
Advertisement expiry
11 October 2024
Site notice start
20 September 2024
Site notice end
11 October 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12742418
Documents
26

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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