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Little Hope, 58 Station Road, Shalford, Guildford, GU4 8HD

25/P/01281Cert. of Lawful. of Existing Use or Dev.Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 14 November 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (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 of the living room, dining room, spare bedroom and supervised use of the kitchen and bathroom at 58 Station Road as a child minding facility for 7 children between the hours of 8am to 6pm Monday to Thursday for approximately 46 weeks of the year does not constitute a material change of use that would require planning permission.

Received
19 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Shalford
  1. Received19 Sep
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.25 Oct
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided14 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Little Hope, 58 Station Road, Shalford, Guildford, GU4 8HD. Guildford has handled 297 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 139 applications across Shalford. We hold 956 applications in total for the GU4 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
GU4 8HD
Application type
Cert. of Lawful. of Existing Use or Dev.
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shalford

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2025
Consultation expiry
25 October 2025
Consultation start
3 October 2025
Consultation end
25 October 2025
Neighbour consultation start
1 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
25 October 2025
Last date for comments
14 November 2025
Target decision date
14 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
25 October 2025
Site notice end
25 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14264646
Documents
16

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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