Cricket Ground St Cross Road Winchester Hampshire SO23 9RX Data via plota.co.uk

25/02398/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

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Application progress

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Received

25 Nov 2025

✓

Approved

12 Feb 2026

Approved on 12 Feb 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 13 Oct 2026

Documents 19

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Public Comment · 20 Dec 2025 View ↗

PDF SPORT ENGLAND Consultee Comment · 19 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF NATURESPACE COMMENTS Consultee Comment · 18 Dec 2025 View ↗

Site constraints 9

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

Winchester conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Special area of conservation 136 m away: River Itchen

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

SSSI 136 m away: Alresford Pond SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

National park 92 m away: South Downs

Outside the park; its setting can still be raised.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m; National infrastructure project 1761 m away: M3 Junction 9 Improvement.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

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Important details

Council: Winchester
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: SO23 9RX
Received: 25 Nov 2025
Validated: 25 Nov 2025
Ward: ST MICHAEL WARD
Parish: Winchester Town
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 20 Jan 2026
Decision: Application Permitted
Decision date: 12 Feb 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Notts Sport Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 79 days from validation, about the council's usual 80 days. Approved, as 84% of full applications here are.

This one79d

Council80d

UK56d

21%decided within 8 weeks

84%approved

142decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Winchester in the last twelve months, from validation. Winchester decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14417967
Planning Portal ref: PP-14417967
Statutory expiry: 20 Jan 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

9 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

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Winchester

Planning Authority Score

4.5/10

Below average

#177 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Winchester is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #213 out of 296. 50% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (97%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Winchester decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

93%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #72 of 296

97%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #47 of 296

55%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #213 of 296

50%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #230 of 296

70%

Minor dwellings approved

63 decided (1-9 homes)

92%

Major dwellings approved

12 decided (10+ homes)

88%

Change of use approved

32 decided

918

Total decisions

60 refused in the year to March 2026

Cricket Ground St Cross Road Winchester Hampshire SO23 9RX Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 19

Decision & officer reports 1

Statements & assessments 7

Plans & drawings 5

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 4

Other documents 1

Site constraints 9

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