Alderbury House, Tunnel Hill, Alderbury, Salisbury, SP5 3DW Data via plota.co.uk

PL/2026/03453 - Householder planning permission Submitted

Proposal

Landscape works within the domestic curtilage of Alderbury House to the Walled Garden and East Pleasure Grounds, including: alterations to openings within the listed garden walls; relocation of the existing swimming pool; regrading of levels around the Coach House; construction of an ancillary garden shed and workshop; construction of a new tennis pavilion; and associated planting, meadow establishment and landscape enhancement works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
12 Aug 2026
Decision
Expected by 7 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 9 Oct 2026, from Wiltshire's recent listed building works.

The consultation period closed on 10 Sept 2026.

Documents 25

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Alderbury House, Grade II*, about 2 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 2 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Avon SAC
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.
Alderbury 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.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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 3. 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: Wood pasture and parkland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Registered park or garden about 224 m away: Longford Castle; Priority habitat about 33 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 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 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 £4,500,000 in January 2021. Detached house, freehold.

29 January 2021£4,500,000

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

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Important details

Council
Wiltshire
Application type
Householder planning permission
Postcode
SP5 3DW
Received
12 Aug 2026
Validated
12 Aug 2026
Ward
Alderbury & Whiteparish ED
Parish
Alderbury CP
Case officer
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Decision outlook

Day 58, past the statutory target. 81% of listed building works in Wiltshire are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 11 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 4 Oct 2026.

Day 582 days past the 56-day target
53%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
388decided in the last year

Plota live figures for listed building works decided by Wiltshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Wiltshire decision record →

Public comments

5comments received
4 neutral1 supporting

20% support · above the UK average of 16%

Last counted 4 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
10 Sept 2026
Wiltshire
Planning Authority Score
3.9/10
Below average
#203 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Wiltshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #225 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 55% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Wiltshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #71 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #65 of 296
53%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #225 of 296
55%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #252 of 296
78%
Minor dwellings approved
339 decided (1-9 homes)
90%
Major dwellings approved
48 decided (10+ homes)
92%
Change of use approved
160 decided
3,659
Total decisions
256 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.