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Cornwalls The Cottage Brighton Road Lower Kingswood Surrey KT20 6SY

25/01800/PAP3MAPrior Approval - Comm'l to DwellingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 December 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior approval application pursuant to Schedule 2, Part 3, Paragraph MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 for the Change of Use from Class E (commercial) to Class C3 (residential).

Received
15 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Lower Kingswood Tadworth And Walton
  1. Received15 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Nov
  4. Target3 Dec
  5. Decided3 Dec

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Cornwalls The Cottage Brighton Road Lower Kingswood Surrey KT20 6SY. Reigate has handled 567 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Reigate's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 157 applications across Lower Kingswood Tadworth And Walton. We hold 1,040 applications in total for the KT20 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
KT20 6SY
Application type
Prior Approval - Comm'l to Dwelling
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2025
Consultation expiry
5 November 2025
Consultation start
15 October 2025
Consultation end
5 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
15 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
5 November 2025
Target decision date
3 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5 Pool House Bancroft Road Reigate RH2 7RP

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14335353
Documents
18
Constraints
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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