Spinney Works, Cranfield Road, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, MK17 8UR Data via plota.co.uk

PLN/2025/1927 - Change of use Approved

Proposal

Change of use from repair, servicing, and sale of agricultural and horticultural machinery, motor scooters, and related spare parts to Class B8 with ancillary trade counter Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
12 Sept 2025
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Approved
25 Feb 2026

Approved on 25 Feb 2026 · Panel · Last checked 12 Oct 2026

Documents 25

Consultation & comments 9

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show APPPREPR - Public Representations · 16 Feb 2026 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show APPPREPR - Public Representations · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show APPPREPR - Public Representations · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show APPPREPR - Public Representations · 23 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Consultation Response Note - 23 October 2025 APPSUPP - Other Supporting Documents/Information · 23 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show APPPREPR - Public Representations · 22 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show APPPREPR - Public Representations · 22 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show APPPREPR - Public Representations · 22 Oct 2025 View ↗
PDF Cllr Hopkins comment 16.10.25_Redacted APPCONR - Consultation Responses · 16 Oct 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 3

Site constraints 6

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Deethe Farmhouse, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Historic England ↗
Article 4 direction
Article 4 Direction relating to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HIMO) - Non immediate direction. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.
Tree preservation order
Consent is needed before work on protected trees.
Not every council has published its orders as open data, so no order shown is not proof there is none.
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) agrees.
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 Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 328 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 12 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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £805,000 in August 2025. Other property, freehold.

13 August 2025£805,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Application type
Change of use
Postcode
MK17 8UR
Received
12 Sept 2025
Validated
12 Sept 2025
Ward
Danesborough & Walton (Historic 2026)
Parish
Wavendon (Historic 2026)
Case officer
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Target decision
25 Feb 2026
Decision
Approved with Conditions
Decision date
25 Feb 2026
Decision level
Panel
Applicant
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Agent
Smith Jenkins Ltd - Baldip Basi
Freehold owner
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How this decision compares

Decided in 166 days from validation, 108 days slower than Milton Keynes's median of 58 for full applications. Approved, as 73% of full applications here are.

50%decided within 8 weeks
73%approved
283decided in the last year

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

Public comments

56comments received
48 objecting8 neutral

86% object · above the UK average of 74%

Last counted 12 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Committee
19 Feb 2026
Milton Keynes
Planning Authority Score
7.1/10
Good
#59 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

Milton Keynes is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #52 out of 296. Only 28% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Milton Keynes decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #156 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #159 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #52 of 296
28%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #45 of 296
55%
Minor dwellings approved
66 decided (1-9 homes)
83%
Major dwellings approved
23 decided (10+ homes)
71%
Change of use approved
49 decided
1,088
Total decisions
134 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold owner: Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. Source: HM Land Registry, UK and overseas companies that own property in England and Wales, September 2026 release.