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Houseboat Morpheus Hermitage Bridge Hermitage Road St Johns Woking Surrey GU21 8XP

PLAN/2026/0056Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing UseRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 23 March 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of Existing Lawful Development to establish whether the existing wooden outbuilding is immune from enforcement.

Received
26 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Heathlands
  1. Received26 Jan
  2. Validated26 Jan
  3. Consult.17 Feb
  4. Target23 Mar
  5. Decided23 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Houseboat Morpheus Hermitage Bridge Hermitage Road St Johns Woking Surrey GU21 8XP. Woking has handled 107 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Basingstoke Canal conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 172 applications across Heathlands. We hold 1,553 applications in total for the GU21 postcode area.

75% of amendment 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
GU21 8XP
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 January 2026
Consultation expiry
17 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
17 February 2026
Target decision date
23 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Basingstoke CanalPart of the site
  • Green belt: Woking
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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