P F Windibank Auctioneers, Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, Dorking, RH4 1SG Data via plota.co.uk
Proposal
Change of use of existing auctioneers store (Class E(a)) to use ancillary and incidental to Dorking Halls. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Approved on 6 Mar 2026 · Planning Committee · Last checked 25 Sept 2026
Planning committee
Decided by Mole Valley Development Management Committee on 4 Mar 2026.
Approved by 6 votes to 2
No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.
- The application was to change the use of an existing auctioneers' store to use ancillary and incidental to Dorking Halls.
- Members queried the change of use, and the officer explained the retail classification allowed display of auction items in the shop window.
- The committee granted permission by 6 votes to 2 with 1 abstention, two councillors having excused themselves from the vote.
Source: Plota analysis of Mole Valley's committee minutes, Mole Valley Development Management Committee minutes, 4 March 2026 .
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Application forms 1
Site constraints 4
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Important details
- Council
- Mole Valley
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Postcode
- RH4 1SG
- Received
- 7 Nov 2025
- Validated
- 29 Dec 2025
- Ward
- Dorking South
- Parish
- Non Parish Area
- Case officer
- Show
- Target decision
- 23 Feb 2026
- Decision
- APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS
- Decision date
- 6 Mar 2026
- Decision level
- Planning Committee
- Applicant
- Show
- Agent
- DHA Planning
How this decision compares
Decided in 67 days from validation, about the council's usual 70 days. Approved, as 69% of changes of use here are.
Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Mole Valley in the last twelve months, from validation. Mole Valley decision record →
Consultation & key dates
- Alt. reference
- PP/2025/01698
- Comments by
- 29 Jan 2026
- Committee
- 4 Mar 2026
- Statutory expiry
- 10 Mar 2026
- Env. assessment
- No
Historical activity at this location
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