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

PL/26/02328/FA - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Demolition of existing building and siting of new park office Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

23 Mar 2026

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Consultation

1 May 2026

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Approved

11 Sept 2026

Approved on 11 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 13 Sept 2026

Documents 15

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 6 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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Important details

Council: Buckinghamshire
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: SL3 6QG
Received: 23 Mar 2026
Validated: 23 Mar 2026
Ward: Farnhams and Stoke Poges
Parish: Wexham Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 12 Oct 2026
Decision: Approved
Decision date: 11 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 172 days from validation, 99 days slower than Buckinghamshire's median of 73 for commercial and major works. Approved, as 86% of commercial and major works here are.

This one172d

Council73d

UK57d

34%decided within 8 weeks

86%approved

111decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Buckinghamshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Buckinghamshire decision record →

Public comments

4comments received

3 objecting1 neutral

75% object · above the UK average of 74%

32 neighbours consulted · Last counted 13 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Neighbours: 1 May 2026
Consultation: 1 May 2026
Comments by: 22 May 2026
Statutory expiry: 18 May 2026
Env. assessment: No

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%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

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

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

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 15

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 5

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 2

Other documents 5