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9 Hamble Walk Woking Surrey GU21 3PR

PLAN/2025/0787Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 27 November 2025

1 reason for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of Existing Lawful Development for the erection of a picket fence and gate to front garden.

Submitted
14 October 2025
Ward
Goldsworth Park
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 44 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 9 Hamble Walk Woking Surrey GU21 3PR. Woking has handled 3,212 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than Woking's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Goldsworth Park. We hold 1,553 applications in total for the GU21 postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. The erection of the subject picket fence and gate is operational development which is in breach of Condition 25 attached to both outline planning permissions for the Goldsworth Park estate (WOK/28268 & 77/1195). As such, it is the 10-year time limit for taking planning enforcement action which applies to the breach of the condition. By the applicant's own submissions the subject picket fence and gate have been substantially completed since 22 July 2018, which is a period of 7 years, 2 months and 21 days as of the date the application was submitted (on 13 October 2025), that being a period of substantially less than the relevant 10- year period which provides for immunity from planning enforcement action in the case of a breach of condition (except a condition preventing the change of use of any building to use as single dwellinghouse). As such, the subject picket fence and gate are not immune from planning enforcement action, by reason of the passage of time, at the current time. They are, therefore, not lawful and express planning permission is required for them.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
GU21 3PR
Parish
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Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Mr Thomas Seccombe

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.

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