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Woodland at the North side of Botany Hill, The Sands, Farnham, Surrey GU10 1LZ

25/W/00077Agriculture and ForestryApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 17 October 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required under Schedule 2, Part 6, Class E (Agricultural and Forestry) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the proposed private way

Received
30 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pilgrims
Agent
MCA Architects
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.16 Oct
  4. Target27 Oct
  5. Decided17 Oct

Decided in 17 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a planning application at Woodland at the North side of Botany Hill, The Sands, Farnham, Surrey GU10 1LZ. Guildford has handled 29 applications of this type. This one was decided in 17 days, 7 weeks quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 132 applications across Pilgrims. We hold 3,090 applications in total for the GU10 postcode area.

87% of all 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
GU10 1LZ
Application type
Agriculture and Forestry
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seale

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2025
Consultation expiry
16 October 2025
Consultation start
10 October 2025
Consultation end
16 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
16 October 2025
Last date for comments
27 October 2025
Target decision date
27 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
MCA Architects
Agent address
Abbey House, Hickleys Court, South Street, Farnham, GU9 7QQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
16 October 2025
Site notice end
16 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14372541
Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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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