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PL/26/06557/SA - Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed Approved

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed installation of a new external steel escape staircase, serving the first and second floors of the existing school building and discharging at ground-floor level. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 13:08

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Application progress

✓

Received

13 Aug 2026

✓

Approved

8 Oct 2026

Approved on 8 Oct 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Documents 4

Site constraints 7

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Habitat network: Traditional orchards

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

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m; Inside the Slough built-up area; Priority habitat 27 m away: Traditional orchard; National infrastructure project 1983 m away: Expansion of Heathrow Airport (Third Runway), at pre-application; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 1, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate 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: Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Postcode: SL3 6BS
Received: 13 Aug 2026
Validated: 13 Aug 2026
Ward: Farnhams and Stoke Poges
Parish: Wexham Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 8 Oct 2026
Decision: Cert of Law PROPOSED-granted
Decision date: 8 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Urban Projects Bureau

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, 9 days faster than Buckinghamshire's median of 65 for community buildings. Approved, as 88% of community buildings here are.

This one56d

Council65d

UK57d

44%decided within 8 weeks

88%approved

48decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 8 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 8 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2023

Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara, (former Daughters Of St Paul), Wexham, Buckinghamshire, SL3 6BS

Change of Use of Site from Class C2 / E(g) and B8 to Class F1(a) Non-Residential Learning…

SMI/2023/10 25 Sep 2023

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%).

Among the slowest councils in England

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