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25/01777/FUL - Full Application (8 Weeks) Approved

Proposal

The temporary compound will house the following elements: Temporary access off a classified highway (C-road); 2 x double stacked site cabins providing office and welfare space; Water tank; Generator; Designated car parking area; Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) storage area Diesel tank 2 x general waste skips. Store, Water Closet (WC), Topsoil storage area, Materials storage area The compound will be installed on imported Type 1 stone laid over a geogrid/geotextile, following a ~300mm topsoil strip. These works are shown on the Site Block Plan (L693.01-JE-BOXFS1ZZ-100-DR-ZD-0012) which shows the general arrangement of the site. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 13 Oct 2026, 14:42

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Application progress

✓

Received

6 Aug 2025

✓

Validated

15 Sept 2025

✓

Consultation

9 Oct 2025

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Approved

8 Dec 2025

Approved on 8 Dec 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 13 Oct 2026

Documents 29

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Click Here Delegated Report · 8 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Approved Decision Notice · 8 Dec 2025 View ↗

Statements & assessments 12

Site constraints 7

SSSI: Boxford Chalk Pit 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.

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Lambourn 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.

North Wessex Downs National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Special area of conservation 18 m away: Kennet & Lambourn Floodplain

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 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 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.

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

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

Also on the record

Priority habitat 17 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.

Not affected

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

Checked on 13 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: West Berkshire
Application type: Full Application (8 Weeks)
Received: 6 Aug 2025
Validated: 15 Sept 2025
Ward: Hungerford & Kintbury
Parish: Boxford Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 9 Dec 2025
Decision: Approval
Decision date: 8 Dec 2025
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Mott MacDonald

How this decision compares

Decided in 84 days from validation, 6 days slower than West Berkshire's median of 78 for full applications. Approved, as 80% of full applications here are.

This one84d

Council78d

UK56d

32%decided within 8 weeks

80%approved

221decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by West Berkshire in the last twelve months, from validation. West Berkshire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 13 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 25 Nov 2025
Site or press notice: 9 Oct 2025
Statutory expiry: 10 Nov 2025
Env. assessment: No

West Berkshire

Planning Authority Score

3.9/10

Below average

#202 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

West Berkshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #199 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) 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

West Berkshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

90%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #122 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #142 of 296

57%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #199 of 296

46%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #203 of 296

55%

Minor dwellings approved

65 decided (1-9 homes)

96%

Major dwellings approved

25 decided (10+ homes)

77%

Change of use approved

57 decided

1,045

Total decisions

108 refused in the year to March 2026