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Proposal

Continuation of use as a retail unit (Class E(a), including food sales), with external alterations to the front, rear and side elevations of the unit, demolition of the existing garden centre lean to structure, provision of plant area, installation of new trolley bays in car park, cycle parking and other associated works. (Related to Planning Application ref. 50209/APP/2026/371) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Validated
12 Feb 2026
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Received
16 Feb 2026
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Committee
15 Sept 2026
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Approved
16 Sept 2026

Approved on 16 Sept 2026 · Last checked 22 Sept 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Hillingdon Planning Committee on 15 Sept 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the retail effects, design, highways and other impacts were acceptable, subject to conditions.
  • Members agreed the officers’ recommendation and approved the application.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, committee discussion, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Hillingdon's committee minutes of 15 Sept 2026.

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 5

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
3 Article 4 directions
Residential extensions · Changes of use from commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghouses · Construction of new dwellinghouses in employment areas. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Strategic industrial land
Reserved for industry and logistics.
The London Plan protects strategic industrial locations from other uses; release needs a plan-led process.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Inside the Hillingdon built-up area.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Hillingdon
Postcode
HA4 0YP
Received
16 Feb 2026
Validated
12 Feb 2026
Ward
SOUTH RUISLIP 2022
Case officer
Show
Target decision
22 Sept 2026
Decision
Approval
Decision date
16 Sept 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 216 days from validation, 157 days slower than Hillingdon's median of 59 for changes of use. Approved, as 55% of changes of use here are.

48%decided within 8 weeks
55%approved
99decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Hillingdon in the last twelve months, from validation. Hillingdon decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
23 Mar 2026
Comments by
12 May 2026
Hillingdon
Planning Authority Score
3.5/10
Below average
#219 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Hillingdon ranks #194 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Hillingdon decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
85%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #208 of 296
90%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #191 of 296
58%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #194 of 296
45%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #190 of 296
61%
Minor dwellings approved
67 decided (1-9 homes)
65%
Change of use approved
17 decided
1,680
Total decisions
255 refused in the year to March 2026