Meeting Room Firs Drive Orchards Residential Park Wexham Buckinghamshire SL3 6QG Data via plota.co.uk

Registered PL/26/08341/FA

Council

Buckinghamshire 1.3/10

Date received

around 14 Oct 2026

Date validated

14 Oct 2026

Postcode

SL3 6QG

Description

Change of use of land for the siting and residential occupation of park homes. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 13:13

Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision between 9 Dec 2026 and 17 Dec 2026, from Buckinghamshire's recent changes of use.

Day 14 of the 56-day target. Buckinghamshire usually decides changes of use by day 56.

prediction

Day 1442 days to the 56-day target

50%decided within 8 weeks

76%approved

221decided in the last year

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

Site constraints 6

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Flood zone 2, rivers and sea

Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

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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 1. 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 Expansion Zone

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

Also on the record

Tree preservation order 9 m away: South Bucks District Council Tree preservation Order No.37, 2005. Dated 20/9/05. Confirmed 22/11/05.; National infrastructure project 1493 m away: Expansion of Heathrow Airport (Third Runway), at pre-application.

Not affected

No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 27 October 2026. 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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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