The Smith Centre, Fairmile, Henley-on-thames, RG9 6AB Data via plota.co.uk

P26/S3309/NM - Non Material Amendment Approved

Proposal

Variation of condition 2 (Approved plans) on application (Demolition of the existing office floorspace and construction of an Extra Care residential development (C2 Class Use together with ancillary amenity spaces, landscaping, car and cycle parking and associated plant) - Revisions to the internal and external areas to provide in response to fire safety and Building Regulation requirements including extension of the lower ground floor level for a sprinkler tank and VRF plant room. Addition of an external LV switch room. Reduction of units from 108 to 100 and associated changes to the unit mix. Amended window sizes and locations design amendments to the facade. (As amplified by information received 08 July 2025.) Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 3 Oct 2026, 08:19

Application progress

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Received

31 Jul 2026

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Approved

10 Sept 2026

Approved on 10 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Documents 1

Application forms 1

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Associated applications 4

Part of

Full16 Aug 2022council archive

Conditions variation sought for 2
- VariationVariation of condition 2 (Approved plans) on application P22/S3033/FUL (Demolition…This application31 Jul 2026P26/S3309/NM
- Show 2 more · 2 approved
  - Variation14 Apr 2025archive
    Conditions details submitted for 2, 10
    - Show 1 more · 1 approved
      ConditionsDischarge of condition 10(contaminated land) on application ref. P25/S1259/S73 Variation…18 Aug 2026P26/S3620/DIS

Site constraints 5

Chilterns National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

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

SSSI about 246 m away: Lambridge Wood SSSI; Priority habitat about 36 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 24 September 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.