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Pressmore Cottage Ashley Green Road Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 3PF

PL/25/1237/EUCertificate of lawfulness - existingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 17 July 2025

Council decision: Cert of Law EXISTING-refuse useDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for existing use of property as a single residential unit.

Received
27 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
Chesham North
Agent
GJH Planning Ltd
  1. Received27 Apr
  2. Validated27 Apr
  3. Consult.10 Jun
  4. Target22 Jun
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 81 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Pressmore Cottage Ashley Green Road Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 3PF. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 601 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer than Chiltern South Bucks's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 982 applications in total for the HP5 postcode area.

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

Postcode
HP5 3PF
Application type
Certificate of lawfulness - existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chesham

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 April 2025
Consultation expiry
1 July 2025
Consultation start
20 May 2025
Consultation end
10 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
21 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
11 June 2025
Last date for comments
1 July 2025
Target decision date
22 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
GJH Planning Ltd
Agent address
2 The Circus Spalding PE11 1WG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 June 2025
Site notice end
1 July 2025

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/1989/037Part of the site
  • Green belt: Buckinghamshire
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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