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Longhurst 481 Woodham Lane Woking Surrey GU21 5ST

PLAN/2025/0879Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 15 January 2026

1 reason for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of Proposed Lawful Development for a rear outbuilding.

Submitted
20 November 2025
  1. Received20 Nov
  2. Validated20 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Jan

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for an outbuilding at Longhurst 481 Woodham Lane Woking Surrey GU21 5ST. Woking has handled 3,207 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 1,553 applications in total for the GU21 postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. The disabled wet room within the proposed outbuilding would provide a shower, toilet and hand basin all in one room to form what would be, as a matter of fact and degree, a bathroom, which constitutes primary living accommodation and consequently is not a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse. Therefore, the applicant has failed to demonstrate, on the balance of probabilities, that the proposed outbuilding would qualify as 'permitted development' (PD) within the scope of Article 3, Schedule 2, Part 1, Class E of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
GU21 5ST

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 November 2025

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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