White Horse Hotel, High Street, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1BE
Approved on 27 June 2024
Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONSDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Erection of 2 No. externally illuminated fascia signs, 2 No. externally illuminated hanging signs, 2 No. non-illuminated free standing signs, and 6 No. non-illuminated other signs.
- Received
- 2 November 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Mole Valley District Council
- Ward
- Dorking South
- ReceivedReceived2 Nov
- ValidatedValidated21 Mar
- Consult.Consultation12 Jun
- TargetTarget Date16 May
- DecidedDecided27 Jun
Decided in 98 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at White Horse Hotel, High Street, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1BE. Mole Valley has handled 25 applications of this type. This one was decided in 238 days, 26 weeks longer than Mole Valley's typical decision time. The site is in the Dorking conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Dorking South. We hold 475 applications in total for the RH4 postcode area.
82% of advertising applications at Mole Valley District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- RH4 1BE
- Application type
- Advertisement
- Development type
- Misc. Hotels and Hostels
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Dorking (Unparished)
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 March 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 12 June 2024
- Consultation end
- 12 June 2024
- Target decision date
- 16 May 2024
- Application expires
- 16 May 2024
- Permission expires
- 26 June 2029
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- HEARTWOOD INNS LTD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- First advertised
- 29 March 2024
- Site notice start
- 4 April 2024
- Site notice end
- 12 June 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12570142
- UPRN
- 100062136571
- Documents
- 21
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Dorking
- Listed building: Grade II: 140 and 142 High Street (part of the White Horse Hotel)On or next to this site · +2 more
- 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, 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.
Source: Mole Valley
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