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26/00261/NCO Decided

Proposal

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 01:09

Application progress

✓

Received

16 Jul 2026

✓

Comments

26 Aug 2026

Comments on 26 Aug 2026 · Last checked 1 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

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), 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: 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

SSSI about 229 m away: Hollinhill and Markland Grips SSSI; Radon affected area, class 3; Coalfield, development low risk area.

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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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: Bolsover
Received: 16 Jul 2026
Validated: 16 Jul 2026
Decision: Comments
Decision date: 26 Aug 2026

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 1 Sept 2026

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Bolsover

Planning Authority Score

8.2/10

Excellent

#20 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Bolsover is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #57 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils

98% approved vs 90% nationally

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Bolsover decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

96%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #8 of 296

98%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #11 of 296

77%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #57 of 296

35%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #98 of 296

98%

Minor dwellings approved

46 decided (1-9 homes)

86%

Major dwellings approved

7 decided (10+ homes)

91%

Change of use approved

35 decided

286

Total decisions

11 refused in the year to March 2026