Meeting Room, Firs Drive, Orchards Residential Park, Wexham, Buckinghamshire, SL3 6QG Data via plota.co.uk

SMI/2026/34 - SMI Application Registered application

Proposal

Change of use of land for the siting and residential occupation of park homes Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 06:31

Application progress

✓

Received

27 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 16 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 21 Dec 2026, from Slough's recent changes of use.

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Flood zone 2, rivers and sea

Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Agricultural land, grade 2

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 1. 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 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 1440 m away: Expansion of Heathrow Airport (Third Runway), at pre-application.

Not affected

No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 27 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.

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Important details

Council: Slough
Application type: SMI Application
Postcode: SL3 6QG
Received: 27 Oct 2026
Validated: 27 Oct 2026
Target decision: 16 Nov 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show

Decision outlook

Day 2 of the 56-day target. Slough usually decides changes of use by day 55.

prediction

Day 254 days to the 56-day target

65%decided within 8 weeks

77%approved

50decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Slough in the last twelve months, from validation. Slough decision record →

Slough

Planning Authority Score

2.4/10

Poor

#260 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

Slough is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #263 out of 296. Slough is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 82% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils

only 82% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Slough decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

78%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #275 of 296

82%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #269 of 296

42%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #263 of 296

39%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #142 of 296

60%

Minor dwellings approved

48 decided (1-9 homes)

50%

Major dwellings approved

4 decided (10+ homes)

40%

Change of use approved

47 decided

617

Total decisions

137 refused in the year to March 2026