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PLAN/2025/0834 - Full Planning Application Approved

Proposal

Installation of a Synthetic Turf Pitch in place of the existing natural grass pitch, including fencing, floodlighting and ancillary equipment Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
around 24 Nov 2025
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Approved
20 Apr 2026

Approved on 20 Apr 2026 · Planning committee · Last checked 9 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Woking Planning Committee on 14 Apr 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the pitch would provide sporting and community benefits without unacceptable harm, subject to conditions and a legal agreement.
  • Sport England raised no objection, while Environmental Health sought controls for noise, fencing, floodlighting and other potential impacts.
  • The committee voted to grant permission subject to conditions and a legal agreement.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, committee discussion, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Woking's committee minutes of 14 Apr 2026.

Documents 28

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 2

Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Also on the record
SSSI 442 m away: Odiham Common with Bagwell Green and Shaw SSSI.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 9 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Woking
Application type
Full Planning Application
Received
around 24 Nov 2025
Validated
24 Nov 2025
Ward
Pyrford
Case officer
Show
Target decision
19 Jan 2026
Decision
Permitted
Decision date
20 Apr 2026
Decision level
Planning committee
Applicant
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Agent
Labosport Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 147 days from validation, 77 days slower than Woking's median of 70 for full applications. Approved, as 75% of full applications here are.

32%decided within 8 weeks
75%approved
11%go to committee

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Woking in the last twelve months, from validation. Woking decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

102 neighbours consulted · Last counted 9 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
22 Dec 2025
Committee
14 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry
19 Jan 2026
Env. assessment
No
Woking
Planning Authority Score
3.1/10
Poor
#234 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Woking is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #217 out of 296. Woking is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 84% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 84% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Woking decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
82%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #254 of 296
84%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #258 of 296
54%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #217 of 296
38%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #136 of 296
55%
Minor dwellings approved
40 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
1 decided (10+ homes)
72%
Change of use approved
18 decided
736
Total decisions
133 refused in the year to March 2026