Planning application
Woodland on North side of Botany Hill, The Sands, Farnham
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Discharge of conditions 3 (BNG Assessments) 4 (Ecology Report) and 5 (Hardsurfacing details) of planning permission 25/P/00286 approved 07/08/2025.
As published by the council, reference 25/D/00160
Application record
- Reference
- 25/D/00160
- Type
- Discharge of Conditions
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Granted As published: Approve
- Received
- 30 Oct 2025
- Validated
- 30 Oct 2025
- Decided
- 7 Apr 2026
- Ward
- Pilgrims
- Parish
- Seale
- Decision by
- Delegated
Site history
Applications at this address on the Guildford register
This site has had 2 applications since 2025: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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25/N/00086 Granted
Woodland on North side of Botany Hill, The Sands, Farnham
Non-material amendment to planning permission 25/P/00286 approved 08/08/2025 to make changes to the layout of the accessway within the site to better facilitate working with the trees
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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30 Oct 2025
Received by Guildford
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7 Apr 2026
Decision issued: Approve
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10 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Related applications
Cases linked to this one on the register
- Application: 25/P/00286 (Decided)
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
MCA Architects Agent, an architecture practice
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
20 documents on file for this application
- Discharge of condition 3
- Surrey wildlife trust comments
- Amended biodiversity net gain assessment
- Habitat management and monitoring plan
- Amended biodiversity net gain metric
- Doc 4 & 5
- Amended statutory biodiversity metric calcs
- Amended biodiversity gain plan
- Amended habitat management & monitoring plan
- Amended biodiversity net gain assessment
- Statutory biodiversity metric calc tools
- Surrey wildlife trust comments
- Application form redacted
- Superseded statutory biodiversity metric calculation tool
- Conditions 3, 4 & 5 cover letter
- Superseded biodiversity gain plan
- Superseded biodiversity net gain assessment
- Superseded habitat management & monitoring plan
- Habitat site plan
- Preliminary ecological appraisal
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Guildford granted permission on 7 April 2026, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
About condition discharge and variation applications
This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.
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