Billingbear Park Golf Club The Straight Mile Wokingham RG40 5SJ Data via plota.co.uk

26/01638/CONDIT Approved
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Details required by Condition, for all phases unless stated, Condition (2) (materials sample board), (3) (tree protection), (4) (electric vehicle charging details), (5) (hard and soft landscaping scheme), (6) (Ecological Mitigation Scheme and updated Biodiversity Net Gain Assessment), Partial Discharge of (7) Part A, (Biodiversity Gain Plan) and Part B (Habitat Management and monitoring plan) only, (8) (construction environmental management plan), (9) (biodiversity enhancements), partial discharge of 11 (Energy and sustainability statement) second part only, (12) (surface water drainage system), (14) (flood warning and evacuation plan), (15) (drainage network upgrades), partial discharge of (16) (archaeological work) written scheme of investigation only, (18) (certificate from the Delivery Partner), (20) ( bicycle storage facilities), (23) (Site specific Construction Environmental Management Plan) partial discharge in relation to phase 1 only, (24) ( delivery and servicing plan), (25) (car park management plan) of planning permission (26/00128/FULL) for a (Phased development of the site, comprising construction of padel tennis and pickleball courts (Phase 1); construction of a putting course (Phase 2); and demolition of existing marquee to the rear of the clubhouse and replacement with new extension and construction of a simulator building (Phase 3); together with car parking alterations and hard and soft landscaping. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
6 Jul 2026
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Approved
28 Aug 2026

Approved on 28 Aug 2026 · Last checked 28 Aug 2026

Documents

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Associated applications 3

Site constraints 5

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.
Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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: 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
Priority habitat 23 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

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Important details

Council
Windsor and Maidenhead
Postcode
RG40 5SJ
Received
6 Jul 2026
Validated
6 Jul 2026
Target decision
30 Aug 2026
Decision
Approve Discharge of Condition
Decision date
28 Aug 2026

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14957204
Windsor and Maidenhead
Planning Authority Score
5.3/10
Average
#135 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Windsor and Maidenhead is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #82 out of 296. Only 28% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Windsor and Maidenhead is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 74% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 74% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Windsor and Maidenhead decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
72%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #293 of 296
74%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #294 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #82 of 296
28%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #47 of 296
44%
Minor dwellings approved
156 decided (1-9 homes)
96%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
64%
Change of use approved
25 decided
1,530
Total decisions
434 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings