Land Adjacent The Estate Office Latimer Park Farm Latimer Road Latimer Buckinghamshire HP5 1TU Data via plota.co.uk

Decided PL/25/3826/KA

Trees & landscaping

Council

Buckinghamshire 1.3/10

Date received

around 9 Oct 2025

Date validated

9 Oct 2025

Postcode

HP5 1TU

Description

T1 - Lime - Fell to just above ground level. G1 - Ash and Elm group - Fell to ground level. T4 - Ash - Fell to ground level. (Chenies and Latimer Conservation Area) Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:54

Site constraints 10

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 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 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.

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Chilterns National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Registered park or garden: Latimer Park

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

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Chenies and Latimer conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

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Article 4 direction

Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - 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 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 3. 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: Wood pasture and parkland

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; Flood defence about 6 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 5 year flood).

Not affected

No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 7 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 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

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

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