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Lowood Rockshaw Road Merstham Surrey RH1 3BZ

25/00956/CANConservation Area NoticeApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 23 June 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T1 - Sycamore tree located next to the garage on the front driveway of the property. Tree is approximately 18 meters in height and has been previously pollarded at 9 meters. We are requesting to pollard these trees down to 8 meters to allow for regular reductions of the trees to keep them at a final finished height of 10m in future. T2 - Sycamore tree located next to the garage on the front driveway of the property. Tree is approximately 18 meters in height and has been previously pollarded at 9 meters. We are requesting to pollard these trees down to 8 meters to allow for regular reductions of the trees to keep them at a final finished height of 10m in future. T3 - Sycamore tree located next to the garage on the front driveway of the property. Tree is approximately 25 meters in height and has been previously pollarded at 9 meters. We are requesting to pollard these trees down to 8 meters to allow for regular reductions of the trees to keep them at a final finished height of 10m in future. G1 - Mixed species group located beneath T1-T2-T3 composing of conifer laurel and blackthorn. Remove all saplings and cut back the sides by 2 meters to allow for the addition of new plants.

Received
27 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hooley, Merstham And Netherne
  1. Received27 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.19 Jun
  4. Target1 Jul
  5. Decided23 Jun

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a garage at Lowood Rockshaw Road Merstham Surrey RH1 3BZ. Reigate has handled 291 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker than Reigate's typical decision time. The site is in the Rockshaw Road, Merstham conservation area. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 127 applications across Hooley, Merstham And Netherne. We hold 1,921 applications in total for the RH1 postcode area.

99% of heritage 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 3BZ
Application type
Conservation Area Notice
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2025
Consultation expiry
19 June 2025
Consultation start
29 May 2025
Consultation end
19 June 2025
Target decision date
1 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Tower Farm War Coppice Road Caterham CR3 6AS

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14046067
Comments
0
Documents
8
Constraints
29

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: Rockshaw Road, Merstham
  • Green belt: Reigate and Banstead
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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.

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