Check your Reigate street before choosing a window
Four questions, in the order the council would ask them. The answer tells you whether you can choose freely, whether you need an application, or whether you need listed building consent.
Planning checker
This is a guide built from the council's published appraisals, not a planning decision. Boundaries are under review, so confirm the address on the council's Where I Live map at whereilive.reigate-banstead.gov.uk under the conservation areas layer.
The conservation areas around Reigate
Reigate and Banstead has twenty-one conservation areas. These are the ones a reader of this site is likely to live in, with the roads the council's appraisals describe. A road named here may be only partly inside the boundary.
| Area | Where | Roads described | Article 4 on windows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reigate Town Centre | Reigate | High Street, Bell Street, Church Street, West Street, London Road, Slipshoe Street and the streets around the Old Town Hall and Priory Park gates | Yes, on most houses |
| Somers Road | Reigate | Somers Road, Alma Road, Birkheads Road, St Albans Road and the lower villas on Reigate Hill | Yes, on most houses |
| Wray Common | Reigate | Croydon Road, Wray Common Road, Doods Road, Doods Way, Gatton Road, Raglan Road, Wray Park Road and Alders Road | Yes, on many houses |
| Chart Lane | Reigate | Chart Lane and its immediate surroundings | Check the map |
| Flanchford Road and Colley Lane | Reigate Heath | Flanchford Road and Colley Lane on the edge of the heath | Check the map |
| Merstham Village | Merstham | Quality Street, the old High Street and Church Hill | Some properties |
| Rockshaw Road | Merstham | Rockshaw Road on the hill | None proposed |
| Kingswood | Kingswood | The Warren estate roads laid out from 1906 | None |
| Redstone Hill | Redhill | The Venner houses on Redstone Hill | None |
| Station Road, Linkfield Street, St John's, Shaws Corner | Redhill and Earlswood | Redhill's town centre and older pockets, St John's on the edge of Earlswood Common | Check the map |
| Betchworth and Buckland | Mole Valley district | The Street in Betchworth and the green at Buckland | No Article 4 recorded |
Woodhatch, Earlswood itself and the 1930s and post-war estates south of the town have no conservation area at all. Betchworth and Buckland are in Mole Valley district, whose Article 4 directions cover only parts of Dorking, Brockham and Leatherhead.
Once you know the answer
- Free choice. Go to aluminium, flush casement or sliding sash and compare prices.
- Article 4 on the street side. Read how an application for windows works in Reigate and the timber page.
- Listed. Read the page on listed houses, which covers consent and secondary glazing.
Not sure where your boundary falls? Give the installer your postcode and they will check it before the survey.