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20 Sunmead Close, Fetcham

MO/2025/1067Proposed Certificate of Lawful UseRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 26 August 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for a proposed development in respect of a change of use of garden building into residential annexe.

Submitted
20 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received20 Jun
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for an outbuilding at 20 Sunmead Close, Fetcham. Mole Valley has handled 123 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Mole Valley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Fetcham. We hold 1,530 applications in total for the KT22 postcode area.

74% of proposed certificate of lawful use 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
KT22 9AP
Application type
Proposed Certificate of Lawful Use

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
AES ARCHITECT LTD

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
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    20 Jun

    Certificate of Lawfulness for a proposed development in respect of a change of use of garden building into…

    This applicationRefusedProposed Certificate of Lawful UseMO/2025/1067
  2. 2025
    18 Jun

    Erection of single storey side and rear extension, following the demolition of existing lean-to extension and…

    RefusedHouseholderFiled alongsideMO/2025/1137

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