Upper Mill Mill House Lane Longparish Andover Hampshire SP11 6QH Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Conversion of south western bay of existing watermill to form flexible tourist accommodation consisting of two units of accommodation, installation of windows, installation of cesspool and parking bays Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
6 Jan 2026
Validated
7 Jan 2026
Consultation
13 May 2026
Decision
Expected by 4 Mar 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision soon after comments close on 27 May 2026; it is now day 248. The consultation period closed on 27 May 2026.

Documents 21

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 9

Grade II listed: Millhouse and Mill
List entry 1302097 · 12 m from the pin
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.
Historic England ↗
SSSI: River Test SSSI
Natural England must be consulted on work that may affect it.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
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 ↗
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.
Longparish 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.
Public footpath 11 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 1
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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.
Habitat network: Lowland fens
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat 8 m away: Lowland fens.
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

Application type
FULL APPLICATION - NORTH
Postcode
SP11 6QH
Received
6 Jan 2026
Validated
7 Jan 2026
Ward
HAREWOOD
Parish
LONGPARISH
Case officer
Show
Target decision
4 Mar 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Jackson Planning Ltd

Decision outlook

Day 248, past the statutory target. 61% of new homes in Test Valley are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 9 Sept 2026.

Day 248192 days past the 56-day target
39%decided within 8 weeks
57%approved
10%go to committee

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Test Valley in the last twelve months, from validation. Test Valley decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 9 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14535590
Neighbours
8 Jan 2026
Consultation
13 May 2026
Comments by
27 May 2026
Site or press notice
4 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry
4 Mar 2026
Env. assessment
No
Test Valley
Planning Authority Score
7.8/10
Good
#32 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Test Valley is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #71 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Test Valley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #68 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #62 of 296
76%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #71 of 296
31%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #61 of 296
70%
Minor dwellings approved
96 decided (1-9 homes)
80%
Major dwellings approved
5 decided (10+ homes)
88%
Change of use approved
50 decided
996
Total decisions
72 refused in the year to March 2026