Type a Guildford postcode and see what's recorded there — conservation area, green belt, Surrey Hills, Thames Basin Heaths, listed buildings nearby — and what each one means for building work.
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Guildford borough is mostly green belt, a large part of it lies inside the Surrey Hills National Landscape, and the town is thick with conservation areas and listed buildings — so "can I actually do anything to this house?" has a longer answer here than in most places. Pick a part of the borough, or type a postcode, and this shows what England's national planning data platform records at that exact spot, with a plain-words line on what each designation means for building work.
Pick a part of town, or type a postcode. The postcode is used once to find the spot and is never stored, logged, or put in a link.
An area the council has designated for its special architectural or historic character. Permitted development rights are tighter than elsewhere — cladding, some extensions, roof alterations and satellite dishes that would need no application on an ordinary street can need one here — and demolition needs consent. Trees are covered too: you must give the council six weeks' notice before cutting or pruning one, whether or not it has a preservation order.
Who holds the rules: Guildford Borough Council: conservation areas
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: GOV.UK: green belt planning guidance
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Surrey Hills National Landscape: planning
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Guildford Borough Council: Thames Basin Heaths SPA
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Natural England: designated sites
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Natural England: designated sites
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: GOV.UK: ancient woodland and veteran trees in planning decisions
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Historic England: scheduled monument consent
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Historic England: registered parks and gardens
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Guildford Borough Council: air quality
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Guildford Borough Council has not published any article 4 direction to the national platform, so this tool cannot tell you whether one covers your street — and that silence is not evidence that none does. Ask the council, or use its planning restrictions search.
Who holds the rules: Guildford Borough Council: search for planning restrictions
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Guildford Borough Council has not published its tree preservation orders to the national platform, so this tool cannot tell you whether a tree near you is protected — that is a gap in publication, not proof the tree is unprotected. The council holds the register; ask before you cut. And in a conservation area you must give six weeks' notice for tree work whether an order exists or not.
Who holds the rules: Guildford Borough Council: protected trees and hedges
The authority that receives and decides planning applications here.
Who holds the rules: Guildford Borough Council: planning
The borough or district council area this point falls in.
Who holds the rules: Guildford Borough Council
The ward you vote in for borough councillors — the people who sit on the planning committee.
Who holds the rules: planning.data.gov.uk: wards
Not recorded on the national planning data platform for this point.
Who holds the rules: Guildford Borough Council: how is my council tax spent (parish councils)
The settlement the Office for National Statistics puts this point in — which is how the platform names places, and is not the same thing as a planning settlement boundary.
Who holds the rules: planning.data.gov.uk: built-up areas
How the land is graded for farming. Grades 1, 2 and 3a are "best and most versatile" land, which policy protects from development; "Urban" and "Non Agricultural" mean it is already built up or otherwise not farmland.
Who holds the rules: planning.data.gov.uk: agricultural land classification
99 listed buildings are recorded within 200 m of this point. The nearest 60 of 99 are in the table below.
Pins are each listing’s own published point, which for a terrace or a long wall is one point for the whole thing. The table below the map is the same data, and is what you get with the map switched off.
This is a record, not a decision
Who decides
Flood risk is not on this page — on purpose
Designations from planning.data.gov.uk, the national planning data platform (Open Government Licence). Postcodes are located by postcodes.io (Open Government Licence). Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), checked 30 July 2026 (today).
How much of the district these designations cover, counted from the same platform. Only designations wholly inside the district are counted.
| Designation | In the district |
|---|---|
| Conservation areas | 40 |
| Listed buildings | 1,089 |
| Ancient woodlands | 491 |
| Scheduled monuments | 34 |
| Sites of Special Scientific Interest | 12 |
| Registered parks and gardens | 8 |
| Air quality management areas | 3 |