OS Parcel 3623 Thame Road Longwick Buckinghamshire Data via plota.co.uk

Decided 25/06402/OUT
Council
Buckinghamshire 1.3/10
Date received
around 10 Jun 2025
Date validated
10 Jun 2025

Description

Outline application (with all matters reserved aside from principal means of access to the highway) for demolition of existing buildings and erection of up to 40 dwellings, new vehicular and pedestrian access, landscaping and open space Data via plota.co.uk

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Planning committee

Decided by Buckinghamshire West Buckinghamshire Area Planning Committee on 23 Sept 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Refused

Against officer advice: officers had recommended approval.

  • Officers advised approval because housing and affordable housing benefits outweighed the identified harms, subject to a legal agreement and conditions.
  • The committee refused the application for unplanned expansion, heritage harm and missing infrastructure obligations.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, speakers, committee debate, vote and reasons for refusal. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Buckinghamshire's committee minutes of 23 Sept 2026.

Site constraints 3

Article 4 direction
Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Agricultural land, grade 3b, surveyed
Not 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 4; 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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Also on the record
Inside the Longwick built-up area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 October 2026. 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.

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Buckinghamshire
Planning Authority Score
1.3/10
Poor
#284 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

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%).

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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