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The Scout Hall Botley Lane Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 1XS

PL/20/1983/PIPPermission in PrincipleApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 October 2020

Council decision: Conditional permissionDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Application for permission in principle for residential development of single or pair of dwellings on previously developed land

Received
3 July 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
Chess Valley
  1. Received3 Jul
  2. Validated3 Jul
  3. Consult.27 Jul
  4. Target14 Oct
  5. Decided21 Oct

Decided in 110 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at The Scout Hall Botley Lane Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 1XS. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 1,766 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than Chiltern South Bucks's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 982 applications in total for the HP5 postcode area.

68% of outline applications at Chiltern South Bucks were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
HP5 1XS
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Latimer & Ley Hill

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 July 2020
Consultation expiry
6 August 2020
Consultation start
6 July 2020
Consultation end
27 July 2020
Neighbour consultation start
7 July 2020
Neighbour consultation end
21 July 2020
Last date for comments
7 August 2020
Target decision date
14 October 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Hawkins Eades Associates 100 High Street Great Missenden Buckinghamshire HP16 0BE

Planning decision

Statutory period
103 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 July 2020
Site notice end
6 August 2020

Additional information

Documents
5

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.
  • 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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© 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.

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Source: Chiltern South Bucks

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