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Castle Grove Nursery Scotts Grove Road Chobham Woking Surrey GU24 8DY

24/1125/GPOPrior Approval OtherRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 29 January 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval Notification under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R, of the Town and Country Planning Act (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for the for the Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings (1000sqm floorspace)) to a flexible use within Commercial/Business/Service.

Received
20 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Windlesham & Chobham
Agent
Woolf Bond Planning
  1. Received20 Nov
  2. Validated20 Nov
  3. Consult.26 Dec
  4. Target31 Dec
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Castle Grove Nursery Scotts Grove Road Chobham Woking Surrey GU24 8DY. Surrey Heath has handled 176 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Surrey Heath's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 298 applications across Windlesham & Chobham. We hold 1,060 applications in total for the GU24 postcode area.

83% of outline applications at Surrey Heath Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GU24 8DY
Application type
Prior Approval Other
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chobham Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 November 2024
Consultation expiry
28 January 2025
Consultation start
5 December 2024
Consultation end
26 December 2024
Neighbour consultation start
7 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
28 January 2025
Last date for comments
28 January 2025
Target decision date
31 December 2024
Permission expires
29 January 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Woolf Bond Planning
Agent address
The Mitfords Basingstoke Road Three Mile Cross Reading RG7 1AT

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13555064
Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Surrey Heath
  • 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.

Source: Surrey Heath

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