Cherry Tree Cottage, Horsham Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6PD
Proposal
Erection of a retaining front wall, hard standing to provide car parking space, new steps to the property and alterations to existing shared driveway, following removal of existing front hedge and retaining wall.
- Received
- 28 July 2025
- Decided
- 24 October 2025 · Approve
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Guildford Borough Council
- Ward
- Tillingbourne
- ReceivedSubmitted28 Jul
- ValidatedValidated28 Jul
- Consult.Consultation29 Aug
- TargetTarget Date27 Oct
- DecidedDecided24 Oct
Decided in 88 days (council typically 63)
This is a full planning application at Cherry Tree Cottage, Horsham Road, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6PD. Guildford has handled 2,983 applications of this type and approves 82% of them, typically deciding them in 65 days. This one was decided in 88 days, 3 weeks longer than Guildford's median. The site is in the Holmbury St Mary conservation area. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 151 applications across Tillingbourne. We hold 1,855 applications in total for the RH5 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202627 Aug
2 Yew trees - Reduce crowns by 2m leaving at a height of 14m and overall width of 14m, raise cro...
ApprovedApplication26/T/00226 - 202211 Apr
T1 & T2 Yew trees - reduce height by approximately 5m leaving 5m in height and reduce both sides by…
ApprovedTrees in Conservation Area22/T/00085 - 20198 Mar
New retaining wall at front of site faced in locally sourced stone, hard standing to provide car parking…
ApprovedFull Application19/P/00426 - 20154 Mar
New 1.3m front retaining wall to be erected with hedge on top, resiting of tree, new hardstanding to provide…
RefusedFull Application15/P/00589 - 200823 Jan
Application to crown reduce two Yew trees in rear garden back to old topping points by approx 6 metres…
ApprovedTrees in Conservation Area08/T/00028
Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Holmbury St Mary
- 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 (19)
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, 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.
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