South Buckinghamshire Golf Course & Farnham Park Playing Fields Beaconsfield Road Farnham Royal Buckinghamshire SL2 3BP Data via plota.co.uk

PL/26/05840/EIASO - EIA scoping opinion Decided

Proposal

Request for an EIA Scoping Opinion under Regulation 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) for Enhanced community sports facilities and community sports hub including lighting, landscaping, and associated works. Change of use of part of the South Buckinghamshire Golf Course (Class F2) to football training facility (Sui Generis), and development comprising pitches, performance hub building, indoor pitch, and other ancillary structures along with groundworks, drainage, landscaping and boundary treatments, parking, access roads, service areas, alterations to existing access, floodlighting, and other associated works, reconfiguration and development of the remainder of the golf course to provide a revised course layout and new golf facilities. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 12 Sept 2026, 13:06

Application progress

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Received

20 Jul 2026

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Consultation

22 Jul 2026

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Letter-Replied/Responded to

18 Aug 2026

Letter-Replied/Responded to on 18 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 2 Sept 2026

Documents 2

Site constraints 3

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.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. A site survey can differ.

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

Checked on 11 September 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: EIA scoping opinion
Postcode: SL2 3BP
Received: 20 Jul 2026
Validated: 20 Jul 2026
Ward: Farnhams and Stoke Poges
Parish: Farnham Royal Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 24 Aug 2026
Decision: Letter-Replied/Responded to
Decision date: 18 Aug 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Carter Jonas

Public comments

2comments received

2 objecting

Last counted 2 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 22 Jul 2026
Comments by: 12 Aug 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