Avondale Sun Club, Highwood Copse, Highwood Lane, Highwood, Ringwood BH24 3LZ Data via plota.co.uk

26/00532FULL - Full Application Approved

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Application progress

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Received

11 Aug 2026

✓

Consultation

11 Aug 2026

✓

Validated

14 Aug 2026

✓

Approved

25 Sept 2026

Approved on 25 Sept 2026 · Last checked 25 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 13

Surface water flood riskAerodrome safeguarding zoneAncient woodlandSINC

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Avon SAC

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.

Western Escarpment 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 ↗

2 Article 4 directions

Article 4 Direction Np New Forest Campsite · Article 4 Direction Np New Forest Recreational Campsite. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.

Special area of conservation 26 m away: The New Forest

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 5. 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: The New Forest 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: Ancient Semi Natural Woodland

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

Surface water flood riskCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Aerodrome safeguarding zoneCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Ancient woodlandCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

SINCCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Also on the record

Priority habitat 25 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 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: BH24 3LZ
Received: 11 Aug 2026
Validated: 14 Aug 2026
Parish: Ellingham Harbridge and Ibsley Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 6 Oct 2026
Decision: Grant Subject to Conditions
Decision date: 25 Sept 2026
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, 7 days faster than New Forest (Park)'s median of 49 for extensions. Approved, as 90% of extensions here are.

This one42d

Council49d

UK55d

78%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

83%go to committee

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-12914142
Comments by: 15 Sept 2026
Site or press notice: 11 Aug 2026

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