Summerfield Farm Leighton Road Edlesborough Buckinghamshire LU6 2ES Data via plota.co.uk

PL/26/00394/PNC Approved

Proposal

Prior notification under Class R of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 - Proposed change of use of an agricultural building to a flexible commercial use Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 2 Oct 2026, 01:00

Application progress

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Received

around 19 Jan 2026

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Consultation

26 Jan 2026

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Approved

11 Mar 2026

Approved on 11 Mar 2026 · Last checked 2 Oct 2026

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 3

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) 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 1

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

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 421 m away: The Grand Union Canal Transfer, at pre-application.

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 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: Buckinghamshire
Postcode: LU6 2ES
Received: around 19 Jan 2026
Validated: 19 Jan 2026
Target decision: 15 Mar 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Not Required
Decision date: 11 Mar 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 51 days from validation, 5 days faster than Buckinghamshire's median of 56 for changes of use. Approved, as 76% of changes of use here are.

This one51d

Council56d

UK56d

51%decided within 8 weeks

76%approved

220decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Buckinghamshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Buckinghamshire decision record →

Public comments

1comment received

1 neutral

Last counted 2 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 26 Jan 2026
Comments by: 24 Feb 2026
Site or press notice: 3 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry: 15 Mar 2026

Historical activity at this location

1 nearby application on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Refused

11 Sparrow Hall Farm Business Park Leighton Road Edlesborough Buckinghamshire LU6 2ES

Prior Notification under Class MA of Part 3, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning…

PL/25/4900/PAPCR 8 Dec 2025

Buckinghamshire

Planning Authority Score

1.3/10

Poor

#284 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

Buckinghamshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #280 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Buckinghamshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #217 of 296

86%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #241 of 296

34%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #280 of 296

55%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #248 of 296

76%

Minor dwellings approved

491 decided (1-9 homes)

82%

Major dwellings approved

71 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

131 decided

4,446

Total decisions

690 refused in the year to March 2026