Nursery House Kiln Lane Hedgerley Buckinghamshire SL2 3UX Data via plota.co.uk

Decided PL/25/5552/KA

Council

Buckinghamshire 1.3/10

Date received

around 1 Dec 2025

Date validated

1 Dec 2025

Postcode

SL2 3UX

Description

CN Chestnut: Lightly crown raise over the lawn area. Remove dead internal branches. APR Apricot: Remove dead branches. CH1 Cherry Tree: Prune to contain branches encroaching over the driveway and balance the shape. CH2 Cherry Tree: Prune away from overhead electric wire and balance shape. L Laburnum: This tree is currently leaning heavily and may fail. Lightly prune to remove weight. Make a prop to support the lean. HZ Hazel Groups x 3: Coppice to a 1 metre. APP1, APP2, APP3, APP4, APP5 Apple Trees x 5: Prune by 30%. M Maple: Prune to clear building by 2 to 3 metres. Prune branches to clear electric wire by 1 metre. Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4 Yew Trees x 4: Prune by 1 metre. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 07:34

Site constraints 10

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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Hedgerley Village conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

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2 Article 4 directions

Nursery House and Land, Kiln Lane, Hedgerley · Land on South Side of Kiln Lane Hedgerley - Agricultural. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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) agrees.

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 2

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 2; 2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; National infrastructure project about 1199 m away: SDC M40 Campus, at pre-application; Tree preservation order about 30 m away: Bucks County Council (Eton Rural District) Tree Preservation Order No. 3; 1950; dated 12/1/50 under; Priority habitat about 33 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £435,000 in July 1996. Detached house, freehold.

4 July 1996£435,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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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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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