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1 West View Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 3DE

PL/25/0525/SACertificate of Lawful Use - ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 15 April 2025

Council decision: Cert of Law PROPOSED-refusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed loft conversion, hip to gable, rear dormer (under 50m3) front rooflights and 2.5 metre high outbuilding (4m x 5m).

Received
20 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
Former Chesham
Agent
LIFE-U DESIGN
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided15 Apr

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 1 West View Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 3DE. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 1,766 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3DE
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chesham

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2025
Target decision date
17 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
LIFE-U DESIGN
Architect profile
LIFE-U LIMITED
Agent address
33 Manor Way Chesham HP5 3BH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO/1993/001Protected tree on or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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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.

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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