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Electricity Transform Station Lycrome Road Chesham Buckinghamshire

PL/25/2222/EUCertificate of lawfulness - existingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 4 September 2025

Council decision: Cert of Law EXISTING-grant useDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for confirmation of operational land status of the area as defined in sections 263 and 264 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as the site in its entirety has been owned and operated as a site for electrical supply since before 8th December 1968.

Received
14 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chesham North
  1. Received14 Jul
  2. Validated14 Jul
  3. Consult.27 Aug
  4. Target8 Sep
  5. Decided4 Sep

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Electricity Transform Station Lycrome Road Chesham Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire has handled 260 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Buckinghamshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Chesham North.

70% of amendment applications at Buckinghamshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Certificate of lawfulness - existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chesham

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 July 2025
Consultation expiry
2 September 2025
Consultation start
6 August 2025
Consultation end
27 August 2025
Last date for comments
2 September 2025
Target decision date
8 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Dalcour Maclaren
Agent address
Unit 10 Pinkers Court Briar Gloucester Road Bristol BS35 3QH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 August 2025
Site notice end
2 September 2025

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - Poultry production.Part of the site
  • Green belt: Buckinghamshire
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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

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© 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.

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Source: Buckinghamshire

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