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WHSmith 25 - 29 High Street Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP20 1SH

24/00387/PAPCRPA CoU Comm, Busi, Serv to resiApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 April 2024

Council decision: COU - Office to Residential - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Determination as to whether prior approval is required in respect of transport & highway impact, noise, contamination risk, flooding and locational considerations for the conversion of commercial/business/service (class E) to 12 apartments (class C3) - (GPDO Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA)

Received
2 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Aylesbury Vale
Ward
AYLESBURY NORTH
Agent
Allen Planning Ltd
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target19 Apr
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 81 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at WHSmith 25 - 29 High Street Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP20 1SH. Aylesbury Vale has handled 622 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer than Aylesbury Vale's typical decision time. The site is in 10 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 174 applications in total for the HP20 postcode area.

75% of outline applications at Aylesbury Vale were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
HP20 1SH
Application type
PA CoU Comm, Busi, Serv to resi
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
12
Parish
AYLESBURY

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2024
Consultation expiry
16 April 2024
Consultation start
2 April 2024
Consultation end
16 April 2024
Last date for comments
16 April 2024
Target decision date
19 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Allen Planning Ltd
Agent address
The Old Fire Station EC Salt Lane SALISBURY SP1 1DU United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
77 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 February 2024
Site notice end
6 March 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12762104
Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Land To The Rear Of 23 To 29 Buckingham Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP20 2LRRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Aylesbury Vale

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