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SDNP/26/03992/ADJAUT - Adjoining Authority Consultation Decided

Proposal

Adjoining Authority Consultation - East Hampshire District Council () - Application for approval of all Reserved Matters (siting, scale, external appearance and landscaping) relating to Phase 7 (Discharge Structures) and Phase 8 (Remaining areas of hard and soft landscaping) of the Thicket Reservoir development pursuant to Condition 2 of the S73 consent planning reference dated 6th December 2024. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
5 Oct 2026
Decision
Target date was 26 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 26 Oct 2026.

Site constraints 8

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar
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.
National infrastructure project: Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project
The site is inside the project boundary. Dam or reservoir, accepted for examination.
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
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 4. 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 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 4; Registered park or garden about 187 m away: Leigh Park (Staunton Country Park); 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Priority habitat about 32 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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, 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

Application type
Adjoining Authority Consultation
Received
5 Oct 2026
Validated
5 Oct 2026
Ward
Midhurst Ward CH
Parish
Midhurst Town Council
Target decision
26 Oct 2026
Decision level
SDNPA Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
26 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No