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3 Morton Close Horsell Woking Surrey GU21 4TW

PLAN/2025/0731Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed UseRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 13 November 2025

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Proposed Lawful Development for external works including the insertion of a front rooflight, insertion of 3x sun tunnels, removal of chimney, alterations to roof, installation of replacement windows, alterations to external finishes and alterations to driveway and rear garden and drainage works.

Received
19 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Horsell
Agent
Leo Architecture Ltd
  1. Received19 Sep
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for window replacement at 3 Morton Close Horsell Woking Surrey GU21 4TW. Woking has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 191 applications across Horsell. We hold 1,553 applications in total for the GU21 postcode area.

74% of outline applications at Woking Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development does not comply with condition B.2(a) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 in that the exterior roof materials; namely the proposed replacement grey rooftiles would not be of similar appearance to those of the existing dwellinghouse.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
GU21 4TW
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2025
Target decision date
14 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Leo Architecture Ltd
Architect profile
LEO ARCHITECTURE LTD
Agent address
9 Russetts Close Horsell Woking GU21 4BH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
19
Constraints
10

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

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© 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.

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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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