Chestnut Farm Cottage, Chestnut Farm, Ockham Lane, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NP
Approved on 29 May 2026
Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Certificate of lawfulness for an existing use to establish whether the change of use to a single dwelling house began more than four years before the date of this application.
- Received
- 8 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Guildford Borough Council
- Ward
- Send & Lovelace
- Agent
- Solve Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived8 Oct
- ValidatedValidated22 Oct
- Consult.Consultation13 Dec
- TargetTarget Date17 Dec
- DecidedDecided29 May
Decided in 219 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. This one was decided in 233 days, 24 weeks longer than Guildford's typical decision time. 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).
Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address
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
- 22 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 13 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 21 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 13 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 21 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 13 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 17 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 17 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Solve Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- Suite 6, Eastgate House, Dogflud Way, Farnham, GU9 7UD
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Nicola Powis
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 13 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 13 December 2025
Site constraints
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.
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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.
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Guildford
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Nearby applications
- Chestnut Farm, Ockham Lane, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NP24/N/00070 · AmendmentRefused0.0 mi
- Chestnut Farm, Ockham Lane, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NP24/D/00130 · ConditionsApproved0.0 mi
- Chestnut Farm Cottage, Chestnut Farm, Ockham Lane, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NP25/P/00121 · AmendmentWithdrawn0.0 mi
- Chestnut Farm, Ockham Lane, Ockham, Woking, GU23 6NP24/D/00080/1 · ConditionsApproved0.0 mi
- The Old Forge, Ockham Lane, Ockham, Guildford, GU23 6NP23/T/00277 · TreesApproved0.0 mi
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Consultants on this application
- Solve Planning Limited · Agent for this application
- Solve Planning Limited · Agent for this application
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- H Fulbrook ElectricsElectrician1.5 mi
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