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164 Worplesdon Road, Guildford, GU2 9RX

25/P/01267C of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or DevRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 17 October 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness to establish whether the proposed change of use from C3 (dwelling house) to a C2 (residential institution) children's home for up to three children, with a manager and three carer's, two of whom would stay overnight, working on a rota basis is lawful.

Received
16 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Stoughton South
Agent
Rose Consulting
  1. Received16 Sep
  2. Validated16 Sep
  3. Consult.11 Nov
  4. Target11 Nov
  5. Decided17 Oct

Decided in 31 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 164 Worplesdon Road, Guildford, GU2 9RX. Guildford has handled 651 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 5 weeks quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Stoughton South. We hold 831 applications in total for the GU2 postcode area.

81% of outline 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
GU2 9RX
Application type
C of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stoughton South

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 September 2025
Last date for comments
11 November 2025
Target decision date
11 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rose Consulting
Agent address
16 Rhodesia Avenue, Halifax, HX3 0PB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14331628
Comments
0
Documents
11

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.

Source: Guildford

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