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Polesden Farm, Polesden Road, Great Bookham

MO/2025/0898Approval of ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 July 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Discharge of conditions 3, 7, 8, & 21 of approved planning application MO/2022/0907 ( Appeal Ref: APP/C3620/W/23/3332649) for the development proposed is demolition of four barns. Construction of biomass plant building, 1 x 4 bedroom dwelling. Conversion of tithe barn to 1 x 5 bedroom dwelling and conversion of former stables/ workshop buildings to 2 x 3 bedroom dwellings. Retention of original farmhouse. Creation of new hard and soft landscaping, car parking, turning and driveway areas.

Submitted
21 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received21 May
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Polesden Farm, Polesden Road, Great Bookham. Mole Valley has handled 283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than Mole Valley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Bookham West. We hold 1,886 applications in total for the RH5 postcode area.

90% of approval of conditions 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
RH5 6BE
Application type
Approval of Conditions

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: Mole Valley
  • Registered park and garden: Polesden Lacey
  • 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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: Mole Valley

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