FOI release

Data centres enquiry

Case reference EIR2026/00646

Received 19 March 2026

Published 26 March 2026

Request

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please provide the following information for your local authority area:

For each calendar year from 2021 to the present:

1. The number of planning applications received for data centre developments (including those classified as sui generis or otherwise identified as data centres).

2. The number of these applications that were approved.
If it is easier, a simple table or summary by year is sufficient.

Please include all applications where the primary use is a data centre, regardless of use class.

Response

Please see below the Council's response to your recent request for information.

For each calendar year from 2021 to the present:

1. The number of planning applications received for data centre developments (including those classified as sui generis or otherwise identified as data centres).

Nil.

2. The number of these applications that were approved.

Not applicable.

Yours sincerely,

Information Governance Team

Guildford Borough Council

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