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Chestnut Farm Cottage, Chestnut Farm, Ockham Lane, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NP

25/P/00121Cert. of Lawful. of Existing Use or Dev.Withdrawn
Lawful development certificate

Withdrawn on 1 April 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for existing use to establish whether the use, building works or activity in breach of condition which restricts occupancy of bungalow to persons employed in agriculture, began more than 10 years before the date of this application.

Received
30 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Send & Lovelace
Agent
Solve Planning Ltd
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated6 Feb
  3. Consult.8 Mar
  4. Target3 Apr
  5. Decided1 Apr

Decided in 54 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Chestnut Farm Cottage, Chestnut Farm, Ockham Lane, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NP. Guildford has handled 297 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 61 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Ockham conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 242 applications across Send & Lovelace. We hold 665 applications in total for the GU23 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
GU23 6NP
Application type
Cert. of Lawful. of Existing Use or Dev.
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ockham

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 February 2025
Consultation expiry
8 March 2025
Consultation start
14 February 2025
Consultation end
8 March 2025
Neighbour consultation start
10 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
8 March 2025
Last date for comments
3 April 2025
Target decision date
3 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Solve Planning Ltd
Agent address
Suite 6, Eastgate House, Dogflud Way, Farnham, GU9 7UD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
8 March 2025
Site notice end
8 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13726922
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.

  • Conservation area: Ockham
  • Green belt: Guildford
  • 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, 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, 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.

Source: Guildford

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