Woodlands Cottage Annexe & Honeysuckle Lodge Annexe Crafton Lodge Road Crafton Mentmore Buckinghamshire LU7 0QJ Data via plota.co.uk

PL/26/00702/FA - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Change of use of ancillary annexes to two independent residential units (Class C3) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

16 Mar 2026

✓

Consultation

6 May 2026

✓

Approved

17 Sept 2026

Approved on 17 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 18 Sept 2026

Documents 14

Site constraints 5

Registered park or garden: Mentmore Towers

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Mentmore conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

Heritage at risk: Mentmore Towers

On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.

A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.

Historic England ↗

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.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 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: Buckinghamshire
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: LU7 0QJ
Received: 16 Mar 2026
Validated: 16 Mar 2026
Ward: Ivinghoe
Parish: Mentmore
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 18 Sept 2026
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 17 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Beacon Planning Services Limited

How this decision compares

Decided in 185 days from validation, 129 days slower than Buckinghamshire's median of 56 for changes of use. Approved, as 76% of changes of use here are.

This one185d

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

No public comments yet.

3 neighbours consulted · Last counted 18 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Neighbours: 18 Mar 2026
Consultation: 6 May 2026
Comments by: 27 May 2026
Site or press notice: 15 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry: 11 May 2026
Env. assessment: No

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

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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

Woodlands Cottage Annexe & Honeysuckle Lodge Annexe Crafton Lodge Road Crafton Mentmore Buckinghamshire LU7 0QJ Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 14

Decision & officer reports 3

Statements & assessments 4

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 3

Other documents 3

Site constraints 5

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