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Communications House, Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1EJ

MO/2025/0221Approved
Prior approval

Approved on 10 April 2025

Council decision: PRIOR APPROVAL GRANTEDPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior notification for the change of use of the first floor from office suite with catering facility to 1 No. residential unit.

Received
5 February 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Dorking North
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.21 Mar
  4. Target18 Apr
  5. Decided10 Apr

Decided in 48 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Communications House, Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1EJ. Mole Valley has handled 5,138 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Mole Valley's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 107 applications across Dorking North. We hold 474 applications in total for the RH4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
RH4 1EJ
Development type
New Dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dorking (Unparished)

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2025
Consultation expiry
21 March 2025
Consultation end
21 March 2025
Target decision date
18 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
28 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13753871
UPRN
200000164269
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium 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.

Source: Mole Valley

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