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Fintrax House 13 Station Road North Merstham Surrey RH1 3ED

15/00914/P3JPAPrior Approval Offices to DwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 June 2015

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Proposed change of use from offices to eleven residential units

Received
27 April 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Merstham Historic
  1. Received27 Apr
  2. Validated27 Apr
  3. Consult.22 Jun
  4. Target15 Jun
  5. Decided22 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Fintrax House 13 Station Road North Merstham Surrey RH1 3ED. Reigate has handled 567 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Merstham Village conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,917 applications in total for the RH1 postcode area.

81% of outline applications at Reigate and Banstead Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RH1 3ED
Application type
Prior Approval Offices to Dwellings
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 April 2015
Consultation expiry
22 June 2015
Consultation start
22 June 2015
Consultation end
22 June 2015
Neighbour consultation start
30 April 2015
Neighbour consultation end
21 May 2015
Target decision date
15 June 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Eclipse House Eclipse Park Sittingbourne Road Maidstone Kent ME14 3EN

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 May 2015
Advertisement expiry
28 May 2015
Site notice start
29 May 2015
Site notice end
19 June 2015

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
15
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Merstham Village
  • 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, 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: Reigate

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