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Unilife Riverside House, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, GU1 4TX

26/P/00216Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 15 May 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of conditions 2 (approved plans), 6 (hard and soft landscape scheme), 26 (modified vehicular access) and 28 (parked vehicles) of planning permission 20/P/01460 approved 12/02/2021.

Received
19 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Stoke
  1. Received19 Feb
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.2 Apr
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided15 May

Decided in 85 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Unilife Riverside House, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, GU1 4TX. Guildford has handled 2,986 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 3 weeks longer than Guildford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across Stoke. We hold 772 applications in total for the GU1 postcode area.

85% of full applications at Guildford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. Owing to the design and scale of the proposed bin store, and changes to the frontage of the building, the development would not result in a high quality design and would harm the character of the building and its surroundings and would not comply with Policy D1 of the LPSS, Policies H4, D4, D5, D6 of LPDMP, Chapter 12 of the NPPF and the National Design Guide.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
GU1 4TX
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
St Nicolas

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2026
Consultation expiry
2 April 2026
Consultation start
6 March 2026
Consultation end
2 April 2026
Neighbour consultation start
12 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
2 April 2026
Last date for comments
21 May 2026
Target decision date
21 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Turley
Agent address
Mountbatten House, Grosvenor Square, Southampton, SO15 2RP

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 March 2026
Advertisement expiry
2 April 2026
Site notice start
6 March 2026
Site notice end
2 April 2026

Additional information

Documents
41

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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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