The Chalet, Walking Bottom, Peaslake, Guildford, GU5 9RR
Approved on 16 April 2026
Council decision: Tree Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
T1 - Beech-Group - Reduce the house side of the beech trees by 2-3m, clear any overhang over the house and clear branches from phone line. The top corner and outer sides are to be blended into the existing crown to leave the trees looking as natural as possible on completion. The field side and overall height is not to be reduced within the spec of this work. T2 - Mixed Group - Hazel, Holly, Prunus, Beech - Reduce the height of trees that run along the boundary between the property and yellow cottage to approximately 1m below the phone line (approximately 15-20m long stretch of trees of 5-6m in height), to re instate informal hedge. Total height of trees once pruned to be approximately 4m in height. T3 - Beech Group (with dead prunus between trees) - Safely remove the dead/dying wild cherry that is situated within the line of beech trees. Crown reduce The two large beach Trees by 2 to 3 m all around to reduce encroachment over garage and neighbouring property and manage height. T4 - Safely remove the heavily leaning Hawthorne tree that leans over the path at the rear of the property and stack all waste in habitat pile by boundary line T5 - Remove significant deadwood (dead branches of over 50mm diameter and 1m long) from the ash tree that is situated on the roadside boundary overhangs the road (Peaslake Conservation Area)..
- Received
- 9 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Guildford Borough Council
- Ward
- Tillingbourne
- ReceivedReceived9 Mar
- ValidatedValidated9 Mar
- Consult.Consultation4 Apr
- TargetTarget Date20 Apr
- DecidedDecided16 Apr
Decided in 38 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a tree application at The Chalet, Walking Bottom, Peaslake, Guildford, GU5 9RR. Guildford has handled 655 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 4 weeks quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. The site is in the Peaslake conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.
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
- GU5 9RR
- Application type
- Trees in Conservation Area
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Shere
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 4 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 13 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 4 April 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 April 2026
- Last date for comments
- 20 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 20 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Randall's Tree Care
- Agent address
- 8 Ockley Road, Ewhurst, Surrey, GU6 7QJ
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Tim Holman
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 4 April 2026
- Site notice end
- 4 April 2026
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Peaslake
- 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 (19)
flood storage 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.
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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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Guildford
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