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Cardinal Place Guildford Road Woking Surrey GU22 7LR

PLAN/2026/0177PA - COU commercial/service to dwellhsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 24 April 2026

Council decision: Permitted4 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 of the existing ground floor restaurant (Class E) to residential (Class C3) use to form 6no. residential studio units. External works to the building facade approved under PLAN/2025/0459.

Received
2 March 2026
Public comments
2
Ward
Mount Hermon
Agent
Rolfe Judd Planning
  1. Received2 Mar
  2. Validated2 Mar
  3. Consult.25 Mar
  4. Target26 Apr
  5. Decided24 Apr

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Cardinal Place Guildford Road Woking Surrey GU22 7LR. Woking has handled 317 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Woking's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Mount Hermon. We hold 752 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 7LR
Application type
PA - COU commercial/service to dwellhs
Scale / size
Small
Parish
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Planning application dates

Date validated
2 March 2026
Consultation expiry
25 March 2026
Consultation end
25 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
25 March 2026
Target decision date
26 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Rolfe Judd Planning
Architect profile
ROLFE JUDD PLANNING LIMITED
Agent address
Old Church Court Claylands Road The Oval London SW8 1NZ

Planning decision

Case officer
Matthew Lambert
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
24
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 11-15 Guildford Road / Southern House/Jubilee House/ Lynton House, Station Approach, Woki…Register site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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 (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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