18 Farnham Road, Guildford, GU1 4XA
Approved on 13 January 2026
Council decision: Tree Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
T1 & T2 Lime Trees - reduce crown back to previous pollard points leaving a crown height of 5m and a crown spread of 3.5m. (Conservation Area).
- Received
- 3 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Guildford Borough Council
- Ward
- St Nicolas
- ReceivedReceived3 Dec
- ValidatedValidated2 Dec
- Consult.Consultation27 Dec
- TargetTarget Date13 Jan
- DecidedDecided13 Jan
Decided in 42 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a tree application at 18 Farnham Road, Guildford, GU1 4XA. Guildford has handled 655 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 3 weeks quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in the Millmead and Portsmouth Road, Guildford conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across St Nicolas. We hold 772 applications in total for the GU1 postcode area.
99% of trees 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
- GU1 4XA
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Friary & St. Nicolas
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 5 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 27 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 27 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 13 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 13 January 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- TreeSolutions
- Agent address
- 137 Rowan Close, Guildford, GU1 1PP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 41 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 27 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 27 December 2025
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Millmead and Portsmouth Road, 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 (21)
flood storage 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.
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