Current Planning Applications

Haldi Restaurant 80 Marsworth Road Pitstone Buckinghamshire LU7 9AS

Marsworth Road - from the corner of Albion Road up to Ivinghoe
Rushendon Furlong
Williamson Way
Treachers Close
Orchard Way
High Street Ivinghoe - Brook End Mill & properties by the Haldi
Groomsby Drive
Brookmead School
Windmill Pre School

Note: Final decisions on planning applications are made by Buckinghamshire Council. Comments from PPC are taken into account when decisions are made.

Land north of Glebe Close

Delivered between 26/6/25
1-4 Ridgeway View
1-33 Old Farm, odd numbers (Facing Marsworth Rd. & close to the roundabout)
All Albion Road and Grange Road
All Glebe Close
All Rushendon Furlong
Treachers Close
Williamson Way
Brook End
Chequers Lane , incl. Yardley Farm
Cheddington Road, from Chequers Lane corner to railway bridge (incl. Orchard Farm, Applestore, Walnut Barn, Greenacres)
Yardley Avenue, the far end, from the Health Centre onwards (incl. Newells Hedge)
Marsworth Road the entire stretch from the roundabout to Brookmead (incl. the Forge Flats and Farriers Corner)
Albion Road
Brookmead

Note: Final decisions on planning applications are made by Buckinghamshire Council. Comments from PPC are taken into account when decisions are made.

it was RESOLVED (proposed by Cllr Mrs Crutchfield, seconded by Cllr B Blunt, and passed unanimously) to advise Buckinghamshire Council that the Parish Council was wholly and resolutely opposed to the application on numerous grounds, briefly outlined below and now available in full via the Buckinghamshire Council Planning Portal.
 Development beyond the settlement boundary, policy 1 of the neighbourhood plan
 Development into open countryside that immediately abuts the designated conservation area in Ivinghoe, Ford End and Great Gap
 Increased coalescence of the villages of Pitstone, Ivinghoe and Great Gap reducing village individual identities
 Reduction of important open land which is part of the historical landscape and visible from both the AONB and Ivinghoe Conservation Area
 Isolated new ‘community’ that would not integrate well into Pitstone, yet with significant negative impact on the existing local area and residents
 Complete unsuitability in all respects of Albion Road as the sole vehicular access point for a new estate
 Significant negative impact on ecology, biodiversity and water management/preservation of a vital chalk stream
 Insufficient proposals to address the moratorium on no new dwellings within the immediate location of the Chiltern Beechwoods SAC
 Significant concerns regarding the ‘temporary’ SANG that appears to just be a temporary biodiversity offset rather than meeting the requirements of a SANG
 Numerous highways / road safety and wider infrastructure, education and healthcare concerns
 Erodes the ‘sense of place’ of our rural village community, which does not wish to be expanded into a small town.

138 Vicarage Road Pitstone Buckinghamshire LU7 9EY

Delivered 25/4/25: 136, 136a, 140, Vicarage road

Note: Final decisions on planning applications are made by Buckinghamshire Council. Comments from PPC are taken into account when decisions are made.

Pitstone Quarry Upper Icknield Way Pitstone Buckinghamshire LU7 9GL

A special public planning meeting will be held on Thursday 2 January 2025 at 7.30pm at Pitstone Pavilion.
The principal documents are available on the project website https://pitstone-quarry.co.uk/supporting-documents/ and the full planning application submission is on the planning authority portals. This includes the design principles, master plans, the visualisations showing how the restoration will develop over time, the Environmental Statement Non-Technical Summary and a link to the Environmental Statement.

The formal planning application details are as follows:

Buckinghamshire County Council - See link above

Hertfordshire County Council planning application reference is PL/0426/24 and can be accessed here

Note: Final decisions on planning applications are made by Buckinghamshire Council. Comments from PPC are taken into account when decisions are made.

It was RESOLVED to advise both Buckinghamshire Council and Hertfordshire County Council that the parish council was in SUPPORT of this application, subject to the following comments being taken into consideration:
• Safe pedestrian access to the site (including the crossing of the Upper Icknield Way) required from both Vicarage Road and Westfield Road to serve Pitstone and Ivinghoe residents. Method to be determined by Buckinghamshire Council as Highways Authority and conditioned within the planning agreement.
• Buckinghamshire Council to review road safety considerations arising from the uplift in traffic generated by 140,000 visitors to the SANG per annum, predominantly at weekends, including any potential parking restrictions that may be required on the Upper Icknield Way/Vicarage Road and improvements to the Vicarage Road junction to improve safety. Any capital improvements deemed necessary to be conditioned within the grant of planning.
• Both planning authorities to give consideration to site security within their boundaries, to prevent out-of-hours trespass access to the lagoon for wild water swimming, and ensure suitable measures are included within the consent.
• Both planning authorities to satisfy themselves, in conjunction with the other ecological bodies involved, as to the protection of biodiversity, and reinstatement of habitat, to ensure the target biodiversity and habitat gains are delivered. This should include detailed monitoring before, during and after reinstatement. Both monitoring and deliverables should be conditioned within the grant.

Land To The Rear Of 87 Marsworth Road Pitstone LU7 9BA - revised application

Neighbour notifications (for this updated proposal) 19/1/24: Rushendon Furlong 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44, 46, 48,53,55,57; Marsworth Road 58,60,62,64,66,66A, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78 Haldi, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95/Garage House, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107; Brookend, 1 high Street

Note: Final decisions on planning applications are made by Buckinghamshire Council. Comments from PPC are taken into account when decisions are made.

Land R/O 12 Queen Street Pitstone Buckinghamshire LU7 9AU (amended application)

Neighbour notifications 16/11/23 and 24/5/24to:
* All of Queen Street (both sides)
* All of Cheyne Close (both sides)
* All of Grange Road
* Albion Road, up to Grange Road (both sides)
* Marsworth Road - section between Queen Street and Albion Road

Note: Final decisions on planning applications are made by Buckinghamshire Council. Comments from PPC are taken into account when decisions are made.

The Parish Council advertises all applications on our web site, Facebook page, twitter feed and noticeboards. We also hand deliver letters to near neighbours.

The application was considered by the planning committee on 6/6/24 where it was resolved to advise Buckinghamshire Council that the Parish Council has no objections to the principle of this application (as now revised), but wished the Local Planning Authority to take the following comments into consideration:

• The reduction in dwelling numbers from 4 to 3 was welcomed, but those properties occupy the same footprint as previously as the built land has also reduced by a quarter, so the development still feels cramped.
• Please consider the impact on foul drainage and whether any improvements are required to the infrastructure.
• It was felt that the proposed bin storage and collection arrangements required review, as it was unlikely that the residents would use the designated rear bin store and it is understood that BC would be likely to require the bin collection point to be located at the front of the driveway adjacent to Queen Street as the positioning currently shown was too far from the road.
• Consider the situation at both ground and eaves level when assessing the useable space of the access road to ensure that the overhang on both properties is protected from vehicular damage.
• Ensure too that high enough curb edgings are provided along both sides of the access road where it runs between numbers 10 and 12 Queen Street to protect the flank walls and rooves of both properties.
• Consider the likelihood of parking ‘overspill’ onto Queen Street and any adjustments required to limit this.
• It was noted that the LPA had previously requested the replacement of the orchard trees and that the amended application showed a proposal, but it was felt that as the proposed planting may in fact be too dense to enable the long term life and growth of the proposed trees this should be assessed by the BC tree officer.

Land To The Rear Of 87 Marsworth Road Pitstone LU7 9BA

Neighbour notifications 17/3/23 & second letter 1/4/23: Rushendon Furlong 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,53,55,57; Marsworth Road 58,60,62,64,66,66A,68,70,72,74,76,78 Haldi, 87,89,91,93,95/Garage House,97,99,101,103,105,107;Brookend, 1 high Street

Note: Final decisions on planning applications are made by Buckinghamshire Council. Comments from PPC are taken into account when decisions are made.

The Parish Council advertises all applications on our web site, Facebook page, twitter feed and noticeboards. We also hand deliver letters to near neighbours.

The application was considered by the full parish council on 30 March 2023 where it was resolved to advise Buckinghamshire Council that the Parish Council was opposed to the application in its current form.

It was recognised that the application does potentially comply with many of the requirements laid out in the Pitstone Neighbourhood Plan, however the following material points need to be considered when weighing the planning balance:

• Policy 6.iv of the Neighbourhood Plan states that development proposals will be supported provided that “where development could affect existing hedgerows or trees that contribute to Pitstone’s rural or village character their landscape schemes include their retention.” We consider that on a practical and purposive interpretation of the Policy, the words “existing … trees” must include those which would have still been ‘in situ’ had they not been pre-emptively felled in advance of the planning application being submitted. There was until recently a substantial and developed tree canopy, covering essentially the entire application site (see for example images on Google Earth dating from July 2021). The vast majority were removed during, it is believed, Q1 2022. These included a large and well-established walnut tree (the remains of which were still on site during our own site visit) along with, we understand, old apple trees. Orchards in particular are an important part of the Pitstone heritage – as recognised by our Neighbourhood Plan. It is understood that tree preservation orders were in the process of being sought, in relation to the site, at the time of the felling. It is our strong view that the application can only properly be considered against the policies of the Neighbourhood Plan (and, accordingly, approved or conditioned or refused) as if all the felled trees were still in place, despite the fact that they no longer are.

• Access is proposed off Marsworth Road, close to Brookmead School and Windmill PreSchool, and would cross the existing footpath. This is a stretch of narrow road, which is already heavily congested with traffic at school drop off and pick up times. The narrow footpath is heavily used by pre-school and primary school aged children walking/scooting to school both by themselves and with parents (depending on age). Whilst the Highways Authority believe that sufficient vision splays may be achievable we remain concerned about the safety of children and pedestrians given the potential volume of traffic movements arising from this number of properties, visitors, deliveries etc. There are existing issues with blocked access to Orchard Way (in the same vicinity) that ‘keep clear’ markings do not prevent and therefore anticipate that parents will also block access to these properties at peak times, preventing access by emergency vehicles / refuse collection vehicles (as well as by residents themselves).

• The provision of five dwellings feels an over development of this particular site, leaving parking provision for properties and visitors too tight. The proposed ridge heights and incorporation of 3-storeys to the 2 semi-detached properties seems to create too much massing for this enclosed space and create potential loss of privacy for existing near neighbours.

If the local planning authority is nonetheless minded to approve the application (in its current or any amended form), we would make the following submissions with regards to mitigation and related matters:

• As regards the felled trees, even if their removal had been permitted following an independent tree survey, offset or other mitigation requirements would undoubtedly have arisen (as for example per the 17/01871/APP development in Pitstone that required a replacement woodland to be planted to mitigate loss of woodland on the application site). The parish council feels very strongly that any stipulated mitigation should not only be assessed on the basis that the felled trees are still in situ; but also that it should be calculated prudently, i.e. erring towards giving each such tree the maximum potential ecological value that it could have had, given how the opportunity to have the extent of actual loss properly assessed has been denied to us. Mitigation must also, we hope it goes without saying, be provided within the parish and not elsewhere.

• There is currently a moratorium on the approval of any applications for new dwellings that cannot provide suitable mitigation measures in relation to the Chilterns Beechwoods SAC. No mitigation proposals are included within the application. It is understood that the developer would seek to provide financial offset to Buckinghamshire Council instead for combined use elsewhere in the county. This would not be acceptable to the parish council and we feel strongly that mitigation should be provided within the parish (which stretches into Ashridge, the site of the SAC).

• The creation of access would leave the existing property at 87 Marsworth Road with no dedicated off-street parking (it currently enjoys at least 2 spaces on what would become the access road for the application site). This does not comply with Policy 6.v of the Pitstone Neighbourhood Plan, if and to the extent it applies to no.87 (which we consider it properly does). Even if it does not, development of the application site would create a requirement for displaced parking on Marsworth Road by the occupants of no.87, in what is already a heavily congested zone. The need for vehicular access to and sufficient off-street parking for 87 Marsworth Road would therefore also need to be addressed as part of the LPA’s decision.

Land Adjacent To Allotment Gardens Marsworth Road Pitstone Buckinghamshire

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Numerous grounds. See Buckinghamshire Council planning portal for full details.

Land To The South Of Marsworth Road And The West Of Vicarage Way Pitstone Buckinghamshire

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See planning portal for full details of grounds