Oakhill Cottage, Pitland Street, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6PD
Proposal
T1 - Cherry Tree, reduce by approximately 1.5 - 2m all round to create a well shaped and balanced crown (Holmbury St Mary Conservation Area).
- Received
- 3 November 2025
- Decided
- 13 January 2026 · Tree Application Approved
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Guildford Borough Council
- Ward
- Tillingbourne
- ReceivedSubmitted3 Nov
- ValidatedValidated2 Dec
- Consult.Consultation27 Dec
- TargetTarget Date13 Jan
- DecidedDecided13 Jan
Decided in 42 days (council typically 63)
This is a tree application at Oakhill Cottage, Pitland Street, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6PD. Guildford has handled 655 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 41 days. This one was decided in 71 days, 4 weeks longer than Guildford's median. The site is in the Holmbury St Mary conservation area. There have been 2 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
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
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.
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