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20 High Street Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0DJ

PL/25/2692/HBListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 23 October 2025

Council decision: Consent ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Listed building consent for works comprising proposed signage, traditional lettering and lighting to the shop front for 'The Old Amersham General Stores Ltd', re-painting of front wall, signage, window and door frames.

Received
8 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Amersham and Chesham Bois
Agent
Danks Badnell Architects Ltd
  1. Received8 Aug
  2. Validated8 Aug
  3. Consult.2 Oct
  4. Target3 Oct
  5. Decided23 Oct

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for signage at 20 High Street Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0DJ. Buckinghamshire has handled 198 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than Buckinghamshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Amersham conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 226 applications across Amersham and Chesham Bois. We hold 2,558 applications in total for the HP7 postcode area.

86% of heritage 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

Postcode
HP7 0DJ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Amersham

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 August 2025
Consultation expiry
22 October 2025
Consultation start
11 September 2025
Consultation end
2 October 2025
Last date for comments
22 October 2025
Target decision date
3 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Danks Badnell Architects Ltd
Agent address
Kings Stables 3-4 Osborne Mews Windsor SL4 3DE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 September 2025
Advertisement expiry
10 October 2025
Site notice start
1 October 2025
Site notice end
22 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Amersham
  • Listed building: Grade II: 20 20a, High StreetOn or next to this site · +3 more
  • Article 4 direction: Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - Poultry production.
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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, 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

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: Buckinghamshire

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