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Horseshoe Farm, North End, Ravenstone, Olney, MK46 5AN

PLN/2025/1315Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 15 December 2025

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Demolition of an existing commercial building and erection of 4 semi-detached dwellings along with hard and soft landscaping

Received
24 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Olney
  1. Received24 Jun
  2. Validated8 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Dec

Decided in 98 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Horseshoe Farm, North End, Ravenstone, Olney, MK46 5AN. Milton Keynes has handled 1,205 applications of this type. This one was decided in 174 days, 17 weeks longer than Milton Keynes's typical decision time. The site is in the Ravenstone conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Olney. We hold 95 applications in total for the MK46 postcode area.

89% of full applications at Milton Keynes City Council 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 increased height of the dwellings in comparison to the existing barn, their height above the neighbouring Listed Almshouses, the 1½ storey design of the west-facing facade and depth of terracing in comparison to the immediate dwellings to the south, along with the length of the dwellings extending northwards beyond the Listed Almshouses, in combination with the proposed front parking arrangements with extensive hardstanding and multiple driveways opening onto North End with loss of the grassed verge, would together not only compete with the Listed Almshouses, intruding on their rural and low intensity setting, but it would also erode the rural and low intensity settings of the nearby Scheduled Monument, All Saints Church and The Old Vicarage and the Conservation Area more widely and it would also directly erode the rural character of the Conservation Area through widening and urbanisation of North End, causing less than substantial harm and high to moderate within that range to designated heritage assets, and harm through proposals not being in keeping with the prevailing character of this part of Ravenstone, contrary to Policies D1, D2, D3 or HE1 of Plan:MK (2019) and

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
MK46 5AN
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Ravenstone

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 September 2025
Application expires
23 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
106 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14114997
Documents
42

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Ravenstone
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Direction relating to Houses in Multiple Occupation (HIMO) - Non immediate dire…
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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: Milton Keynes

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