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Barclays Town Gate House Church Street East Woking Surrey GU21 6AE

PLAN/2026/0130PA - COU commercial/service to dwellhsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 April 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Prior Notification requirement under Part MA of the GPDO for the change of use of Class E space to form 7 apartments.

Received
17 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Canalside
Agent
Allen Planning Ltd
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.17 Mar
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Barclays Town Gate House Church Street East Woking Surrey GU21 6AE. Woking has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 6 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 139 applications across Canalside. 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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Application details

Postcode
GU21 6AE
Application type
PA - COU commercial/service to dwellhs
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2026
Consultation expiry
17 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
17 March 2026
Target decision date
16 April 2026
Permission expires
16 April 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Allen Planning Ltd
Agent address
Harrogate Business Centre Hammerain House Hookstone Avenue Harrogate HG2 8ER

Planning decision

Statutory period
58 days

Additional information

Documents
22
Constraints
12

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.

Source: Woking

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