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Upcoming elections

Get ready to vote on 7 May 2026 for who will represent you on West Surrey Council. This will replace Surrey County Council and 11 borough and district councils (including Guildford) from 1 April 2027.

Find out more information about the upcoming election.

Planned maintenance to our payment system

Due to scheduled maintenance, our payment system will be unavailable from 5pm until 7pm today (Monday 20 April). 

During this time you will not be able to make any payments online. We apologise for the inconvenience. 

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You must have an account and be logged in to submit a pre-planning application. Create your account first, then come back to this page to complete your task using the buttons below.

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If you have any questions email about your application, email planningenquiries@guildford.gov.uk.

We do not make details of pre-application enquiries available to the public. However, planning applications have a pre-application advice section. We'll give you a reference number which you can put in this section if you wish. If you do this, the details of your pre-application advice will go on your application file.

We have to give details of pre-application advice if someone makes a freedom of information request.