1, Pitts Deep Cottages, SOWLEY LANE, EAST END, LYMINGTON, SO41 5SQ Data via plota.co.uk

25/01401FULL - Full Application Refused

Proposal

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Application progress

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Received
22 Dec 2025
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Consultation
22 Dec 2025
✓
Validated
31 Dec 2025
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Refused
11 Feb 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 11 Feb 2026 · Last checked 4 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 14

Aerodrome safeguarding zoneFlood zone 3Flood zone 2SINC
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.
New Forest National Park
The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.
3 Article 4 directions
Article 4 Direction Np New Forest Campsite · Article 4 Direction Np New Forest Recreational Campsite · Hovercraft in the Solent. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.
In flood zones plus climate change
Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From the sea. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.
Flood map ↗
Local nature reserve 26 m away: Boldre Foreshore
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.
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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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.
SSSI 26 m away: North Solent 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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Aerodrome safeguarding zoneCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Flood zone 3Council record
The council's own flood layer for this site.
Council site ↗
Flood zone 2Council record
The council's own flood layer for this site.
Council site ↗
SINCCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Priority habitat 5 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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
New Forest (Park)
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
SO41 5SQ
Received
22 Dec 2025
Validated
31 Dec 2025
Parish
Boldre Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
16 Feb 2026
Decision
Refuse
Decision date
11 Feb 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Jerry Davies Planning Consultancy

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, 8 days faster than New Forest (Park)'s median of 50 for full applications. Refused, as 8% of full applications here are.

78%decided within 8 weeks
92%approved
85%go to committee

Plota live figures for full applications decided by New Forest (Park) in the last twelve months, from validation. New Forest (Park) decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14523893
Comments by
9 Feb 2026
Site or press notice
22 Dec 2025

Historical activity at this location

7 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Application for discharge of condition 3 of planning permission 25/00052FULL for single-s…
25/00894DOC
2025 Approved
Application for discharge of conditions 4 & 6 of planning permission 25/00052FULL for sin…
25/00895DOC
2025 Approved
Single-storey extension (demolish existing); 4no. dwelling windows; terrace; plant room…
25/00052FULL
2019 Refused
Single storey extension; demolition of flat roof extension (Application for a Non Materia…
19/00425
2018 Approved
Single storey extension; demolition of flat roof extension
18/00151
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2018 Approved
2 PITTS DEEP COTTAGES, SOWLEY LANE, EAST END, LYMINGTON, SO41 5SQ
Infill single storey extension to outbuilding to create garage and covered way
18/00740
2016 Refused
2 PITTS DEEP COTTAGES, SOWLEY LANE, EAST END, LYMINGTON, SO41 5SQ
Extensions to existing barn; demolition of existing lean-to to shed and external staircas…
16/00945
New Forest (Park)
Planning Authority Score
3.3/10
Poor
#226 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

New Forest (Park) is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #254 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) 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
New Forest (Park) decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
89%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #136 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #160 of 296
45%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #254 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #180 of 296
75%
Minor dwellings approved
28 decided (1-9 homes)
50%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
83%
Change of use approved
18 decided
487
Total decisions
55 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

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