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Mop End Farm Mop End Lane Mop End Buckinghamshire HP7 0QP

PL/25/2447/FAFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 10 March 2026

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Proposal

Proposed battery energy storage facility and associated works

Received
15 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Chiltern South Bucks
Ward
The Missendens
Agent
Energy Planning
  1. Received15 Aug
  2. Validated15 Aug
  3. Consult.12 Sep
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided10 Mar

Decided in 207 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Mop End Farm Mop End Lane Mop End Buckinghamshire HP7 0QP. Chiltern South Bucks has handled 8,004 applications of this type. This one was decided in 207 days, 22 weeks longer than Chiltern South Bucks's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,558 applications in total for the HP7 postcode area.

82% of full applications at Chiltern South Bucks were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The development is a major development in the National Landscape for which a case of exceptional circumstances does not exist under paragraph 190 of the NPPF (2024). The proposed development would also constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt, would result in harm to the openness of the Green Belt in both spatial and visual terms, and would conflict with three of the purposes of including land within the Green Belt. Substantial weight is given to the harm to the Green Belt. Other harm has been identified to the character and appearance of the site, National Landscape and the local surroundings; the development would result in poor design, harm to the setting of the Grade II* Listed Shardeloes Park, harm to below ground heritage and there is insufficient information on impact to protected species. The harm to the Green Belt, National Landscape and the other harm identified, is not clearly outweighed by other material considerations such as to constitute the very special circumstances necessary to permit inappropriate development in the Green Belt. The proposal is thereby contrary to fail to accord with policies CS4, CS22, CS24 and CS31 of the Chilterns Core Strategy and Policies AS2, GB2, GC1, LB2, LSQ1 and NC1 of the Chilterns Local Plan (1999) and sections 13, 15 and 16 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2024).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
HP7 0QP
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Little Missenden

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 August 2025
Consultation expiry
12 September 2025
Last date for comments
12 September 2025
Target decision date
14 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Energy Planning
Agent address
3 Lockside Office Park Lockside Road Preston PR2 2YS

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 August 2025
Advertisement expiry
12 September 2025

Additional information

Documents
48

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: Whole District excluding the Town of Chesham - Poultry production.
  • Green belt: Buckinghamshire
  • National Landscape (AONB): Chilterns
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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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