Planning promotion for garden plots in Woking

Planning authority

Woking Borough Council

Postcodes

GU21, GU22, KT14

Noon sun, 21 March

About 39°

Shadow from a 5 m eaves line

About 6.2 m

Planning plan

Local Plan

County

Surrey

What the council will look at in Woking

Before we suggest promotion on a garden in Woking, we read the council’s Local Plan and any design guidance Woking Borough Council publishes on garden land. Those documents shape what is realistic: how close a new home can sit to existing windows, how much garden each house keeps, how wide a shared drive needs to be, and how parking and bins are handled.

If the policies point against a plot, it’s better to know at the appraisal than after a refused application. If they support it, the application is written to answer them directly, which gives the council fewer reasons to say no.

How we’d take it forward in Woking

From first call to completion, a promotion in Woking runs in clear stages: free appraisal, heads of terms, agreement, planning application, marketing and sale. You decide at the points that matter most, signing the agreement, setting the minimum price and approving the buyer. Timing depends on the council’s workload, any extra reports it asks for and the buyer’s solicitors, so we give a realistic range rather than a promise.

1. Free plot appraisal

   We check your title plan, access, the surrounding gardens and the policies in the council’s Local Plan as a desktop exercise, then talk it through with you. If it looks viable, we visit. No cost and no obligation.

2. Heads of terms

   We set out the deal in writing: the term, how our fee works, the cap on planning costs we can recover, the minimum price, the marketing approach and the cap on your reasonable legal fees that we cover.

3. We apply for planning

   We commission the surveys and drawings, take pre-application advice where it helps, submit the application and deal with the council’s questions. You pay nothing at this stage, and the decision is the council’s.

4. Completion and payout

   On completion, sale costs, our capped planning costs and our fee come out of the proceeds in the order the agreement sets. The balance is paid to you through your solicitor.

Worth checking early

• The plot’s price isn’t known until it’s marketed with permission; it depends on location, size, access and the permission itself.
• You can’t sell the plot to anyone else while the agreement runs, so the term length matters.
• You’ll live next to whatever is built, so the layout, windows and new boundary affect your house too.

Other options in Woking

• Combine gardens with your neighbours
• Large rear gardens
• Plot feasibility and design
• Garden plot option agreement
• Garage courts and yards
• Sell part of your garden

Planning promotion near Woking

• Chertsey
• Weybridge
• Guildford
• Cobham
• Egham

• More about garden plots in Woking
• Planning promotion for your garden plot: the full guide