79 Ambleside Road Lightwater Surrey GU18 5UH
Approved on 28 May 2026
Council decision: Grant10 conditions
Proposal
Retrospective change of use of existing detached garage (Class C3) to provide a dog grooming and cycle repairs/maintenance service (Sui Generis).
- Received
- 12 March 2026
- Public comments
- 5
- Council
- Surrey Heath Borough Council
- Ward
- Lightwater
- Agent
- Inception Planning Limited
- ReceivedReceived12 Mar
- ValidatedValidated12 Mar
- Consult.Consultation29 May
- TargetTarget Date20 May
- DecidedDecided28 May
Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at 79 Ambleside Road Lightwater Surrey GU18 5UH. Surrey Heath has handled 560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Surrey Heath's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Lightwater. We hold 111 applications in total for the GU18 postcode area.
86% of full 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
- GU18 5UH
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Windlesham Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 29 May 2026
- Consultation start
- 1 May 2026
- Consultation end
- 29 May 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 14 April 2026
- Last date for comments
- 29 May 2026
- Target decision date
- 20 May 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Inception Planning Limited
- Agent address
- 2nd Floor, Stanley House London Road Hook RG27 9GA
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Shannon Kimber
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14771835
- Documents
- 14
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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: Surrey Heath
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