Elm Nursery Sutton Green Road Sutton Green Guildford Surrey GU4 7QD Data via plota.co.uk

PLAN/2026/0657 - Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use Pending Consideration

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for the existing use of the site as a farm shop, garden centre, café, event space and ancillary offices (Use Class E), and a children's farm (Sui Generis). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 13:25

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Application progress

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Received

around 22 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 17 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 17 Nov 2026.

Comments are open until 20 Oct 2026

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Documents 20

Statements & assessments 4

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Plans & drawings 1

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Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 22 Sept 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF NEIGH. NOTIF. - STANDARD - LIST Neighbour Notification List · 29 Sept 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 5

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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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. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Conservation area 62 m away: Sutton Park and Sutton Green; Registered park or garden 220 m away: Sutton Place.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £2,150,000 in October 2025. Other property, freehold.

10 October 2025£2,150,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Building

Floor area143 m² (1,539 sq ft)

Energy ratingD (57 out of 100), could reach C

PropertyDetached house, 6 habitable rooms

Built1976 to 1982

HeatingBoiler and radiators, oil

WallsCavity wall, as built, partial insulation (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in July 2025, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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