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Brookwood Cemetery Cemetery Pales Brookwood Woking Surrey GU24 0BL

TREE/2026/8021Works to Trees Covered by a TPOApproved

Approved on 6 March 2026

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Area of woodland to be thinned by selective removal of up to 25% of self sown trees, to include (but not exclusively) Betula pendula, Pinus sylvestris, quercus robur and Castanea sativa. Ilex acqitolium to be thinned by 80% by total number. Trees to be removed are those which are less than 40cm girth at 1.3m above ground level. (Works subject to TPO 626/0361/1989).

Received
22 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Heathlands
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Brookwood Cemetery Cemetery Pales Brookwood Woking Surrey GU24 0BL. Woking has handled 474 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Woking's typical decision time. The site is in the Brookwood Cemetery conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 172 applications across Heathlands. We hold 1,058 applications in total for the GU24 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
GU24 0BL
Application type
Works to Trees Covered by a TPO
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2026
Target decision date
19 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 Lych Way Woking Surrey GU21 4QG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Brookwood Cemetery
  • Green belt: Woking
  • Registered park and garden: Brookwood Cemetery
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Brookwood Cemetery+1 more
  • SSSI: Ash to Brookwood Heaths SSSIPart of the site
  • Special Protection Area: Thames Basin HeathsPart of the site
  • 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 (16)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered battlefields, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, Special Areas of Conservation, 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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