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The Old Bake House, Middle Street, Shere, Guilford, GU5 9HF

26/P/00226C of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 April 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for a proposed use to establish whether the use of the two front rooms as a Pilates Studio (Class E (d)) would be lawful.

Received
19 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tillingbourne
Agent
The Plannery Ltd
  1. Received19 Feb
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 62 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at The Old Bake House, Middle Street, Shere, Guilford, GU5 9HF. Guildford has handled 651 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days. The site is in the Shere conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 173 applications across Tillingbourne. We hold 420 applications in total for the GU5 postcode area.

81% of outline 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
GU5 9HF
Application type
C of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shere

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2026
Last date for comments
16 April 2026
Target decision date
22 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Plannery Ltd
Architect profile
THE PLANNERY LIMITED
Agent address
Tallboys, 15 Courts Hill Road, GU27 2NG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14717912
Comments
0
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Shere
  • Listed building: Grade II: The ForgeOn or next to this site
  • 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 (18)

flood storage areas, 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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