Bowenhurst Golf Centre Mill Lane Crondall Farnham GU10 5RP Data via plota.co.uk

26/00403/PREAPP - Pre-Application Decided

Proposal

Change of use of land to include vehicle recovery and vehicle storage operations. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
11 Mar 2026
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Opinion Issued
29 Apr 2026

Opinion Issued on 29 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Licence at this address

  • Licence Ballerz Clubhouse Premises licence · in force Hours not given on the register
    Food hygiene rating: 5 (Very good)Inspected 4 Mar 2026

Licensed hours are what the licence permits, not opening times.

Site constraints 5

Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not 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 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: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; National infrastructure project about 1841 m away: Southampton to London Pipeline Project.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, 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
Hart
Application type
Pre-Application
Postcode
GU10 5RP
Received
11 Mar 2026
Validated
11 Mar 2026
Ward
Odiham
Parish
Crondall
Case officer
Show
Target decision
8 Apr 2026
Decision
Opinion Issued
Decision date
29 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Mark Cooke

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
8 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No
Hart
Planning Authority Score
4.7/10
Below average
#165 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

Hart ranks #116 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Hart decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #223 of 296
86%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #244 of 296
71%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #116 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #111 of 296
64%
Minor dwellings approved
45 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
2 decided (10+ homes)
81%
Change of use approved
16 decided
698
Total decisions
114 refused in the year to March 2026