Court House Bagwell Lane Winchfield Hook RG27 8DB Data via plota.co.uk

26/00153/PREAPP - Pre-Application Decided

Proposal

The proposal is to install 17 x 435W Solar PV Panels (total output 7.395kW) on the stable roof of the Court House as well as 10kWh of Battery Storage. The Court House is G2 listed but the proposed development has been planned to minimize the impact on the views of the Court House from Bagwell Lane and St Mary's church. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
29 Jan 2026
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Validated
24 Feb 2026
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Opinion Issued
15 Apr 2026

Opinion Issued on 15 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 26 Jul 2026

Site constraints 3

Grade II listed: Court House Farmhouse
List entry 1244708 · The pin is inside its outline · 1 more listed building within 150 m (1 Grade I)
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.
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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: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £1,450,000 in September 2000. Detached house, freehold.

22 September 2000£1,450,000

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

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Important details

Council
Hart
Application type
Pre-Application
Postcode
RG27 8DB
Received
29 Jan 2026
Validated
24 Feb 2026
Ward
Hartley Wintney
Parish
Winchfield
Case officer
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Target decision
24 Mar 2026
Decision
Opinion Issued
Decision date
15 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Consultation & key dates

Comments by
17 Mar 2026
Statutory expiry
24 Mar 2026
Env. assessment
No
Hart
Planning Authority Score
4.7/10
Below average
#165 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Hart ranks #116 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (86%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Hart decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #223 of 296
86%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #244 of 296
71%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #116 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #111 of 296
64%
Minor dwellings approved
45 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
2 decided (10+ homes)
81%
Change of use approved
16 decided
698
Total decisions
114 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.