Land Off Leckhampstead Road Akeley Buckinghamshire MK18 5HF Data via plota.co.uk

Decided PL/25/6694/CONDA
Council
Buckinghamshire 1.3/10
Date received
around 22 Dec 2025
Date validated
22 Dec 2025
Postcode
MK18 5HF

Description

Application for approval of details subject to condition 5 (construction management), 6 (Great crested Newts report and licence), 7 (Measures for great crested newts), 8 (Footway details), 9 (Archaeological investigation), 10 (surface water drainage), 11 (foul water drainage), 12 (Tree removal), 13 (tree protection), 14 (tree protection - arboriculture statement), 15 (Biodiversity Net Gain report), 16 (Construction Environment Management plan), 17 (Slab and site levels), 18 (housing assessment), 19 (parking, garaging and above), 20 (refuse vehicles and waste bins), 21 (gross internal areas), 22 (Vehicle charging, cycle parking and refuse storage), 23 (Lighting scheme), 24 (visibility splays), 25 (means of access), 26 (Part M disabled access) and 27 (water consumption) of planning approval (allowed on appeal APP/) Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 3

Agricultural land, grade 3a
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 1
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.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 7 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%).

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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