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Pearl Assurance House 28 High Street Woking Surrey GU21 6BW

HABREG/2026/0001Regulation 75 - 2017 Habitat regulationsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 31 July 2026

Council decision: Permitted

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Approval under Regulation 75 of The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 for application ref: PLAN/2025/0939 (Application for Prior Approval under Class MA, Part 3, Schedule 2 of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) to convert the upper floors from commercial Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) to form six self-contained residential flats).

Received
26 February 2026
Ward
Canalside
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target23 Apr
  5. Decided31 Jul

Decided in 155 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a new dwelling at Pearl Assurance House 28 High Street Woking Surrey GU21 6BW. Woking has handled 3,212 applications of this type. This one was decided in 155 days, 14 weeks longer than Woking's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 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 6BW
Application type
Regulation 75 - 2017 Habitat regulations
Scale / size
Small
Parish
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Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2026
Target decision date
23 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Mr Thomas Seccombe
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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: Woking

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