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Transform Housing, First Floor, 204 London Road, Guildford, GU4 7JS

25/W/00058Office to residentialApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 28 July 2025

Council decision: Take no further action

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

Proposal

Prior Approval for change of use from Use Class E (office use) to Use Class C3 (dwellinghouse) under Class MA of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).The proposal involves the conversion of approximately 51.2 sq m (551.1 sq ft) of first-floor office space into a 1-bedroom residential flat.

Received
27 July 2025
  1. Received27 Jul
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jul

Decided in 1 day

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Transform Housing, First Floor, 204 London Road, Guildford, GU4 7JS. Guildford has handled 7,095 applications of this type. This one was decided in 1 day, 9 weeks quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 957 applications in total for the GU4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
GU4 7JS
Application type
Office to residential
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
27 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14208077
Comments
0
Documents
12

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.

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