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52 Howards Wood Drive Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire SL9 7HW

Refused Buckinghamshire PL/25/2924/SA Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed

Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for a proposed single storey outbuilding

As published by the council, reference PL/25/2924/SA

Application record

Reference
PL/25/2924/SA
Type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Proposed
Status
Decided
Decision
Refused As published: Cert of Law PROPOSED-refused
Received
18 Aug 2025
Validated
18 Aug 2025
Decided
24 Oct 2025
Ward
Gerrards Cross and Denham
Parish
Gerrards Cross Town Council
Decision by
Delegated Decision
Postcode
SL9 7HW

Site history

Applications at this address on the Buckinghamshire register

This site has had 4 applications since 2025: 2 approved, 1 refused.

  • PL/25/6773/CONDA Decided

    52 Howards Wood Drive Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire SL9 7HW

    Application for approval of details subject to condition 2 (materials) and 6 (ecology) of planning approval

    Decided 30 Apr 2026 Conditions
  • PL/25/6212/SA Granted

    52 Howards Wood Drive Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire SL9 7HW

    Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed single storey outbuilding

    Decided 6 Feb 2026 Lawful development
  • PL/25/2923/FA Granted

    52 Howards Wood Drive Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire SL9 7HW

    Two storey side and rear extension, alterations to roof with front/rear dormer windows and alterations to existing drive

    Decided 16 Dec 2025 Full applications

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 18 Aug 2025

    Received by Buckinghamshire

  2. 24 Oct 2025

    Decision issued: Cert of Law PROPOSED-refused

  3. 12 Aug 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Who's behind it

Company information only, from the register and Companies House

Richard Clark Chartered Architects Agent, an architecture practice

19 applications on PlanIndex · across 3 councils · 76% granted

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Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

5 documents on file for this application

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What this refusal means

Buckinghamshire refused this application for the reasons on the decision notice; only the applicant can appeal, and refused schemes often return in revised form. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

About lawful development applications

A lawful development certificate is a legal determination that existing or proposed works do not need planning permission; the merits of the scheme are not considered. More in our guide to planning application types.

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