The Hedgerow Parkwood Walters Ash Buckinghamshire HP14 4XQ Data via plota.co.uk

Decided PL/25/4361/FA
Council
Buckinghamshire 1.3/10
Date received
around 21 Nov 2025
Date validated
21 Nov 2025
Postcode
HP14 4XQ

Description

Full application for use of land as private gypsy and traveller caravan site for 2 pitches, including 2 utility buildings and parking. Retention of hardstanding and existing caravan (part retrospective) Data via plota.co.uk

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Planning committee

Decided by Buckinghamshire West Buckinghamshire Area Planning Committee on 23 Sept 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised permission because the site met Green Belt, need, location, landscape, highway, amenity and ecology requirements.
  • The parish councils, residents’ association and other objectors raised Green Belt, landscape, heritage, drainage, security and precedent concerns.
  • Members resolved to grant permission, subject to the report’s conditions and the amended and additional conditions in the update sheet.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, speakers, committee decision and conditions. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Buckinghamshire's committee minutes of 23 Sept 2026.

Site constraints 11

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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Chilterns National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Article 4 direction
Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Special area of conservation about 77 m away: Chilterns Beechwoods
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
SSSI about 77 m away: Bradenham Woods, Park Wood & The Coppice SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Scheduled monument about 133 m away: Buckinghamshire Grim's Ditch: 1.13km long section from Grymsdyke Manor to RAF High Wycombe
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Inside the Walter's Ash and Naphill built-up area; Priority habitat about 48 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3

Checked on 7 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 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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Buckinghamshire
Planning Authority Score
1.3/10
Poor
#284 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

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%).

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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings