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The Abinger Cookery School, Guildford Road, Abinger Hammer

MO/2025/1128DetailedApproved

Approved on 3 September 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of former cookery school to convert into a detached dwelling with private garden and parking for 4 No. cars.

Submitted
1 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received1 Jul
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Sep

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at The Abinger Cookery School, Guildford Road, Abinger Hammer. Mole Valley has handled 207 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 the Abinger Hammer conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,886 applications in total for the RH5 postcode area.

61% of detailed 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 6RZ
Application type
Detailed

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
PLANIT CONSULTANTS LIMITED

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Abinger HammerPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Marsh ViewOn or next to this site
  • Green belt: Mole Valley
  • 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 (18)

flood storage areas, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    21 Sep

    Removal of Condition 3 (zero-carbon ready) of planning application MO/2025/1128

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)MO/2026/01511
  2. 2025
    1 Jul

    Change of use of former cookery school to convert into a detached dwelling with private garden and parking…

    This applicationApprovedDetailedMO/2025/1128

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