88 Lower Guildford Road Knaphill Woking Surrey GU21 2EW

TREE/2025/8275Works to Trees Covered by a TPOApproved

Approved on 28 November 2025

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

T1 - Dawn Redwood: Crown lift by 6m to give clearance from ground level to mitigate lower branch droop and becoming over extended. To clear garden and neighbours garden. Current height 23m and Spread 8m (Works subject to TPO 626/0028/1961)

Received: 16 October 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Woking Borough Council
Ward: St Johns
Agent: Redwood Tree Services Ltd

ReceivedReceived16 Oct
ValidatedValidated16 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date11 Dec
DecidedDecided28 Nov

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 88 Lower Guildford Road Knaphill Woking Surrey GU21 2EW. Woking has handled 474 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Woking's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 72 applications across St Johns. We hold 1,553 applications in total for the GU21 postcode area.

94% of trees 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 2EW
Application type: Works to Trees Covered by a TPO
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 October 2025
Target decision date: 11 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent: Redwood Tree Services Ltd
Agent address: Elm Nursery Sutton Green Road Guildford GU4 7QD

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 5
Constraints: 9

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.

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© 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.

Source: Woking

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