Site Of Former Knowle Croft 72 Camp Road Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire Data via plota.co.uk

Decided PL/25/4711/FA
Date received
around 17 Oct 2025
Date validated
17 Oct 2025

Description

Construction of two detached dwellinghouses and garages together with alterations to existing vehicular access and associated hardstanding and landscaping works. Data via plota.co.uk

Last checked

Planning committee

Decided by Buckinghamshire East & South Buckinghamshire Area Planning Committee on 19 May 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the two homes would not cause harmful character, amenity, highway, drainage or ecological impacts.
  • The town council and residents objected that the development would be out of character and affect plot sizes, parking and traffic.
  • Members voted for conditional permission and approved the application in line with the officer recommendation.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, speakers, committee debate and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Buckinghamshire's committee minutes of 19 May 2026.

Site constraints 7

Scheduled monument: Bulstrode Park camp
Scheduled monument consent is needed for any work to it, separate from planning permission.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
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
Radon affected area, class 2; Registered park or garden about 248 m away: Bulstrode Park; Inside the Gerrards Cross built-up area; National infrastructure project about 1433 m away: SDC M40 Campus, at pre-application; Priority habitat about 48 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 8 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, the Planning Inspectorate, 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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Buckinghamshire
Planning Authority Score
1.3/10
Poor
#284 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Buckinghamshire is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #280 out of 296. 55% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
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Buckinghamshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #217 of 296
86%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #241 of 296
34%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #280 of 296
55%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #248 of 296
76%
Minor dwellings approved
491 decided (1-9 homes)
82%
Major dwellings approved
71 decided (10+ homes)
82%
Change of use approved
131 decided
4,446
Total decisions
690 refused in the year to March 2026