Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

Agricultural land, grade 3b, surveyed

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: Natural England's post-1988 ALC field survey (Reading).

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.

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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 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 16 October 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: Test Valley
Application type: OUTLINE APPLICATION - SOUTH
Received: 8 Jul 2025
Validated: 8 Jul 2025
Ward: ROMSEY TADBURN
Parish: ROMSEY TOWN
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 7 Oct 2025
Applicant: Show
Agent: Alex Munday Planning

Decision outlook

Day 477, past the statutory target. 63% of outline applications in Test Valley are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 23 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 477386 days past the 91-day target

42%decided within 8 weeks

59%approved

12%go to committee

Plota live figures for outline applications decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent outline applications in Test Valley to go on. Test Valley decision record →

Public comments

10comments received

8 objecting2 neutral

80% object · above the UK average of 74%

56 neighbours consulted · Last counted 23 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-13676667
Planning Portal ref: PP-13676667
Neighbours: 21 Aug 2026
Consultation: 29 Sept 2026
Comments by: 20 Oct 2026
Site or press notice: 21 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry: 7 Oct 2025
Env. assessment: No

Test Valley

Planning Authority Score

7.8/10

Good

#32 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

Test Valley is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #71 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

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

Test Valley decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

93%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #68 of 296

96%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #62 of 296

76%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #71 of 296

31%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #61 of 296

70%

Minor dwellings approved

96 decided (1-9 homes)

80%

Major dwellings approved

5 decided (10+ homes)

88%

Change of use approved

50 decided

996

Total decisions

72 refused in the year to March 2026

Land North Of Highwood Lane Highwood Lane Romsey Hampshire Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 68

Decision & officer reports 1

Statements & assessments 7

Consultation & comments 58

Other documents 2

Site constraints 3

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