Land South Of Bourton Road Buckingham Buckinghamshire Data via plota.co.uk

Out of time to determine 24/03426/AOP
Council
Buckinghamshire 1.3/10
Date received
around 19 Nov 2024
Date validated
19 Nov 2024

Description

Outline application (all matters reserved apart from access) for residential development (including affordable dwellings), pre-school/nursery (E/F1), SuDS attenuation, public open space including children's play area, access arrangements off Bourton Road and associated landscaping, infrastructure and ancillary development Data via plota.co.uk

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Decision outlook

Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 709.

Day 709, past the statutory target. 78% of full applications in Buckinghamshire are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 14 Oct 2026.

Day 709653 days past the 56-day target
43%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
1,875decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Buckinghamshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Buckinghamshire decision record →

Planning committee

Decided by Buckinghamshire Central & North Buckinghamshire Area Planning Committee on 3 Sept 2025. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Refused

Against officer advice: officers had recommended approval.

  • Officers advised approval because housing, affordable homes and infrastructure benefits outweighed the identified harms.
  • The committee resolved to refuse the application because it would significantly extend development into open countryside and conflict with planning policies.
Read how the committee decided The proposed development, site history, officers’ assessment, objections and the committee’s refusal.

Source: Plota analysis of Buckinghamshire's committee minutes of 3 Sept 2025.

Site constraints 3

Agricultural land, grade 2, surveyed
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: Natural England's post-1988 ALC field survey (Reading). Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3; the survey is the definitive reading.
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.
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Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
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 3.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 14 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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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings