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Four Acre Farm, Flaxlands, Royal Wootton Bassett, Swindon, SN4 8DY

PL/2025/07384Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghousesRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 17 November 2025

Council decision: Refuse

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

Proposal

Conversion of existing agricultural barn into 1 dwelling house

Submitted
22 September 2025
Ward
Royal Wootton Bassett East ED
  1. Received22 Sep
  2. Validated22 Sep
  3. Consult.24 Oct
  4. Target17 Nov
  5. Decided17 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at FOUR ACRE FARM, FLAXLANDS, ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, SWINDON, SN4 8DY. Wiltshire has handled 971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Royal Wootton Bassett East ED. We hold 902 applications in total for the SN4 postcode area.

80% of outline applications at Wiltshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SN4 8DY
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lydiard Tregoze CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 September 2025
Consultation expiry
24 October 2025
Consultation end
24 October 2025
Target decision date
17 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

6001988
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 17 April 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
21

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)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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

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: Wiltshire

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