Finmere Grounds Farm Water Stratford Road Finmere Buckingham MK18 4AT

26/00756/FFull DevelopmentApproved

Full

Approved on 29 October 2026

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Installation of one static caravan adjacent to existing farm buildings in farmyard for a 3 year period. To be used intermittently during harvest season for farm worker accommodation (temporary). Required to attract staff.

Received: 24 March 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cherwell District Council
Ward: Fringford And Heyfords

ReceivedReceived24 Mar
ValidatedValidated23 Apr
Consult.Consultation5 Jun
TargetTarget Date18 Jun
DecidedDecided29 Oct

Decided in 189 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Finmere Grounds Farm Water Stratford Road Finmere Buckingham MK18 4AT. Cherwell has handled 4,283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 219 days, 22 weeks longer than Cherwell's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 157 applications across Fringford And Heyfords. We hold 2,100 applications in total for the MK18 postcode area.

92% of full applications at Cherwell District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: MK18 4AT
Application type: Full Development
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Finmere

Planning application dates

Date validated: 23 April 2026
Last date for comments: 5 June 2026
Target decision date: 18 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 10

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Cherwell

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