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Barclays Town Gate House Church Street East Woking Surrey GU21 6AE

HABREG/2025/0004Regulation 75 - 2017 Habitat regulationsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 9 October 2026

Council decision: Permitted

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Approval under Regulation 75 of The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (as amended) for application ref: PLAN/2025/0769 (Prior Approval under the provisions of Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) to provide x16 dwellings/apartments).

Received
21 January 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 3 November 2026
Ward
Canalside
Agent
Allen Planning Ltd
  1. Received21 Jan
  2. Validated21 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Mar
  5. Decided9 Oct

Decided in 261 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Barclays Town Gate House Church Street East Woking Surrey GU21 6AE. Woking has handled 3,212 applications of this type. This one was decided in 261 days, 29 weeks longer than Woking's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 139 applications across Canalside. We hold 1,553 applications in total for the GU21 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
GU21 6AE
Application type
Regulation 75 - 2017 Habitat regulations
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 January 2026
Target decision date
18 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Allen Planning Ltd
Agent address
Harrogate Business Centre Hammerain House Hookstone Avenue Harrogate HG2 8ER

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
6
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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: Woking

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