Chapel Bungalow Potbridge Road Odiham Hook RG29 1JW Data via plota.co.uk

25/01613/PREAPP - Pre-Application Registered

Proposal

3 potential uses for the site for affordable homes: 1. A residential mobile caravan site properly landscaped for permanent homes. 2. Blocks of maisonettes. 3. Four detached houses. We would offer a free home to an ex homeless serviceman on the site through Help for Heroes Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
22 Aug 2025
✓
Validated
27 Nov 2025
Decision
Target date was 25 Dec 2025

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 28 Oct 2026; it is now day 335.

Site constraints 7

Public footpath 7 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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.
SSSI 57 m away: Odiham Common with Bagwell Green and Shaw 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.
1 listed building within 150 m
Nearest: Valley End, Grade II, 31 m away
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.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Open access land 28 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 9 October 2026. 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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Important details

Council
Hart
Application type
Pre-Application
Postcode
RG29 1JW
Received
22 Aug 2025
Validated
27 Nov 2025
Ward
Hartley Wintney
Parish
Winchfield
Case officer
Show
Target decision
25 Dec 2025
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Clive Lawrance

Decision outlook

Day 335, past the statutory target. 90% of pre-application advice in Hart are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 25 Oct 2026.

Day 335279 days past the 56-day target
84%decided within 8 weeks
79%approved
976decided in the last year

Plota live figures for pre-application advice decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent pre-application advice in Hart to go on. Hart decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 25 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
25 Dec 2025
Env. assessment
No
Hart
Planning Authority Score
4.7/10
Below average
#165 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Hart ranks #116 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Hart decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #223 of 296
86%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #244 of 296
71%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #116 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #111 of 296
64%
Minor dwellings approved
45 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
2 decided (10+ homes)
81%
Change of use approved
16 decided
698
Total decisions
114 refused in the year to March 2026

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