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Downlands Barn Hitcham Lane Burnham Buckinghamshire

PL/24/3849/PNCPrior Notification Change of UseApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 6 February 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Notification under Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Order) 2015 - Change of use from agricultural building (less than 150sq m ) to flexible commercial use falling within use class B8 (Storage & Distribution)

Received
13 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
Cliveden
  1. Received13 Dec
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.10 Jan
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Downlands Barn Hitcham Lane Burnham Buckinghamshire. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 601 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

68% of amendment 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

Application type
Prior Notification Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Taplow Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2024
Consultation expiry
10 January 2025
Consultation start
20 December 2024
Consultation end
10 January 2025
Last date for comments
10 January 2025
Target decision date
6 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Pike Smith & Kemp Rural
Agent address
The Old Dairy Hyde Farm Marlow Road Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 6PQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

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, 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: Chiltern South Bucks

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