The Gate Cottage Ferry Lane Medmenham Buckinghamshire SL7 2EZ Data via plota.co.uk

PL/26/02913/FA - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Installation of air source heat pump (retrospective). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:58

Application progress

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Received

12 May 2026

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Consultation

20 May 2026

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Approved

13 Jul 2026

Approved on 13 Jul 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 20 Jul 2026

Documents 9

Site constraints 10

Grade II listed: Olmeda the Gate Cottage

List entry 1125588 · 2 m from the pin · 5 more listed buildings within 150 m (1 Grade II*, 4 Grade II)

Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show the other 5 with distances

14 mGate Piers and Gates at West Entrance to Medmenham AbbeyGrade II
92 mAbbey CottagesGrade II
93 mGate Piers and Gates 25 Metres North East of Medmenham AbbeyGrade II
111 mAbbot's Place Herons CottageGrade II
119 mMedmenham Abbey, Abbey House and Wall With Arch to ForecourtGrade II*

Historic England ↗

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 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 ↗

Chilterns National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Medmenham 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.

Council document ↗

Article 4 direction

Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.

Tree preservation order

Consent is needed before work on protected trees.

Not every council has published its orders as open data, so no order shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 2

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map 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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

SSSI 171 m away: Rodbed Wood 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.

Also on the record

Priority habitat 35 m away: Deciduous woodland.

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: Buckinghamshire
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: SL7 2EZ
Received: 12 May 2026
Validated: 12 May 2026
Ward: Chiltern Villages
Parish: Medmenham
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 7 Jul 2026
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 13 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Francis Associates

How this decision compares

Decided in 62 days from validation, 6 days slower than Buckinghamshire's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 85% of full applications here are.

This one62d

Council56d

UK56d

54%decided within 8 weeks

85%approved

714decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Neighbours: 20 May 2026
Consultation: 20 May 2026
Comments by: 10 Jun 2026
Site or press notice: 3 Jun 2026
Env. assessment: No

Buckinghamshire

Planning Authority Score

1.3/10

Poor

#284 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Buckinghamshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #280 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

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for householder decisions

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Buckinghamshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #217 of 296

86%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #241 of 296

34%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #280 of 296

55%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #248 of 296

76%

Minor dwellings approved

491 decided (1-9 homes)

82%

Major dwellings approved

71 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

131 decided

4,446

Total decisions

690 refused in the year to March 2026

The Gate Cottage Ferry Lane Medmenham Buckinghamshire SL7 2EZ Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 9

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 4

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 2

Site constraints 10

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Consultation & key dates