Planning application drawings in Godalming Holloway

Godalming Holloway householder planning by the numbers

Waverley Borough Council granted 93% of the householder planning decisions it made in its latest published year — 6 points above the 87% England-wide householder average. Godalming Holloway contains the CROWNPITS GODALMING conservation area (CROWNPITS GODALMING designated 1984), so materials, fenestration and roof form are assessed against the appraisal, which is where a policy-literate drawing pack earns its keep. Its dominant Victorian (1837–1901) and postwar (1945–1970) housing stock sets the design brief on most streets.

Under Class B, a rear dormer stays permitted development up to 40m³ of added roof volume on a terrace or 50m³ on a semi-detached or detached house, while Class A allows a single-storey rear extension of 3m beyond the original rear wall on a terrace and 4m on a detached house before a full application is needed. Godalming Holloway carries at least one Article 4 direction, and conservation areas including CROWNPITS GODALMING remove those rights outright, so we confirm your exact address before a line is drawn. A validated householder application in Godalming Holloway is determined against an 8-week statutory target.

CROWNPITS GODALMING (conservation area designated in 1984) and Godalming (civil parish within Godalming Holloway) — these are the Godalming Holloway pockets our drawings cover most. Heritage designations here include CROWNPITS GODALMING. Waverley Borough Council weighs each proposal against Waverley Borough Council's adopted local plan and its householder design guidance, where the 1,720 homes here are 21% 1983-1992, 15% 1965-1972, 14% pre-1900, which is what sets the realistic roof and rear-projection options. On roofs the borough is trussed-rafter roofs typical of 1980s building and shallow-pitched roofs and integral garages typical of that period's building, over 1980s estate houses (21% of 1,720 homes), late-1960s and early-1970s houses (15%) and Victorian and earlier houses (14%).

What actually constrains a project in Godalming Holloway

Godalming Holloway's designated heritage is specific, and it is the first thing we check against your address: CROWNPITS GODALMING (conservation area designated in 1984). Inside those boundaries permitted development is curtailed and Waverley Borough Council assesses materials, window detail and roof form against the area's own appraisal, so a scheme that would be waved through two streets away can need a full application here.

Beyond the designated areas, Godalming Holloway takes in Godalming. Waverley Borough Council has 26 recorded Article 4 directions, removing permitted development for rear and side extensions and other roof alterations, including rooflights — check the address before assuming PD applies in Godalming Holloway.

On stock, Godalming Holloway is 1980s estate houses (21% of 1,720 homes), late-1960s and early-1970s houses (15%) and Victorian and earlier houses (14%) — which is why trussed-rafter roofs typical of 1980s building and shallow-pitched roofs and integral garages typical of that period's building govern what a loft or rear projection can realistically be. Waverley Borough Council decided 884 householder applications in the latest published year and granted 93%, with 66% issued inside the eight-week target. Those are the numbers our drawings are prepared against.

The full build-period split for Godalming Holloway runs pre-1900 14% (240 homes), 1900-1918 5% (90 homes), 1919-1929 4% (70 homes), 1930-1939 10% (180 homes), 1945-1954 3% (50 homes), 1955-1964 8% (140 homes), 1965-1972 15% (250 homes), 1973-1982 8% (130 homes), 1983-1992 21% (360 homes), 1993-1999 1% (10 homes) and 2000-2008 5% (80 homes). That distribution is why pre-1900 detailing dominates the drawings here, and it is measured from council-tax records rather than assumed from the street name.

Waverley Borough Council also decides for Bramley & Wonersh, Chiddingfold, Cranleigh West, Elstead & Peper Harow, Ewhurst & Ellens Green, Farnham Bourne, Farnham Castle and Farnham Moor Park, so a decision in Godalming Holloway sits inside a wider pattern of decisions we track across the same authority — useful when an officer cites a precedent from the next area over.

The Article 4 directions recorded for this council include Beacon Hill Commercial Area (2022), Buildings Wood, Horsham Road, Ewhurst (1961), Farnham Trading Estate, Water Lane, Farnham (1965) and Godalming Station Commercial Area (2022). Each removes a specific permitted-development right inside its own boundary, which is why the check is done on the address rather than on the town.

What goes in a Godalming Holloway planning application

Whatever you are building, Waverley Borough Council decides it from the same core set. A location plan at 1:1250 fixes the site on the map with the red-line boundary; a block plan at 1:500 shows the property in its plot; then existing and proposed floor plans and elevations at 1:100 or 1:50 show the house as it is and as it will be. Larger schemes add a section and, where policy requires, a design and access statement. Miss one and the application is returned invalid before an officer has looked at it.

The drawings are also the argument. Waverley Borough Council assesses each proposal against Waverley Borough Council's adopted local plan and its householder design guidance, and the elevations are where the case is won or lost — ridge and eaves heights, window positions, materials and how the change reads from the street. On Godalming Holloway's stock, which runs to 1980s estate houses (21% of 1,720 homes), late-1960s and early-1970s houses (15%) and Victorian and earlier houses (14%), the same scheme is drawn differently to answer the concerns officers raise here. Godalming Holloway contains the CROWNPITS GODALMING conservation area (CROWNPITS GODALMING designated 1984), so materials, fenestration and roof form are assessed against the appraisal, so the pack is built to pre-empt exactly that.

Where the property sits in a conservation area — CROWNPITS GODALMING among Godalming Holloway's — validation is stricter still, often demanding heritage detail and sometimes additional plans. Waverley Borough Council has 26 recorded Article 4 directions, removing permitted development for rear and side extensions and other roof alterations, including rooflights — check the address before assuming PD applies in Godalming Holloway. We confirm the designation before drawing so the pack meets the higher bar first time.