Upper Blackdown Farm Monkey Lane Colemore Alton Hampshire GU32 1EL Data via plota.co.uk

SDNP/26/03327/PA3R - Prior Approval CoU Agric to Flexi Application in Progress

Proposal

Prior approval sort for change of use of the existing agricultural barn and land within its curtilage from agricultural use to storage and distribution (Use Class B8) under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 12 Sept 2026, 04:58

Application progress

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Received

25 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 20 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 18 Sept 2026, from South Downs's recent agricultural works.

Documents 2

Site constraints 4

South Downs 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.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map agrees.

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

Priority habitat 32 m away: Lowland calcareous grassland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building 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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