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Lion House 147 Oriental Road Woking Surrey GU22 8AP

PLAN/2025/0969PA - COU commercial/service to dwellhsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 February 2026

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)8 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

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 23x residential units. (Amended Description).

Received
19 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Mount Hermon
Agent
Woolf Bond Planning Ltd
  1. Received19 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.16 Jan
  4. Target12 Feb
  5. Decided10 Feb

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Lion House 147 Oriental Road Woking Surrey GU22 8AP. Woking has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Woking's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Mount Hermon. We hold 747 applications in total for the GU22 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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Application details

Postcode
GU22 8AP
Application type
PA - COU commercial/service to dwellhs
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
23

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2025
Consultation expiry
16 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
16 January 2026
Target decision date
12 February 2026
Permission expires
10 February 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Woolf Bond Planning Ltd
Agent address
The Mitfords Basingstoke Road Reading RG7 1AT

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
32
Constraints
8

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.

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