Objection deadline: Monday 7 September 2026

Open Green Belt fields between the M25 and Thorney Lane South in Iver, Buckinghamshire

Application PL/26/05438/OA

Stop the development on Iver's Green Belt

Land between the M25 and Thorney Lane South is under threat. Signing the petition helps — but only official objections to Buckinghamshire Council count in the planning decision.

Site
M25 / Thorney Lane South, Iver
Validated
4 August 2026
Reference
PL/26/05438/OA

500+ people have already signed against this

Signatures are shown anonymously. Signing shows strength of feeling — but only an official objection to Buckinghamshire Council counts in the decision.

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What local people are saying

Thorney Lane South is already gridlocked at school times. Hundreds more homes here would make it impossible.

ResidentIver

This is Green Belt land. Once it is built on, it is gone forever — there is no bringing it back.

ResidentRichings Park

Air quality around the M25 junction is already poor. Putting families right next to it is wrong.

ResidentIver Heath

Our GP surgery and schools are full. Where exactly are these new residents supposed to go?

ResidentThorney

The fields flood every winter. Concreting them over will push that water straight into our homes.

ResidentLangley

Barn owls, deer and bats use this land daily. This development would wipe out that habitat.

ResidentDenham

Agree with them? Object officially below.

This is what we stand to lose

Open Green Belt fields, hedgerows and footpaths around Iver — once built on, they never come back.

Wheat field bordered by mature oak trees and hedgerow near Iver
Working farmland and ancient hedgerows on the application site's edge.
Belt of mature trees and hedgerow screening the M25 motorway beyond green fields
This tree belt is our natural barrier against M25 traffic noise and pollution — building here removes it.
Rabbits grazing beside a hedgerow with birds in the branches, meadow and woodland behind
Meadow, hedgerow and woodland habitat — rabbits, birds and other wildlife lose their home too.

Act before the deadline

Deadline to comment: Monday 7 September 2026

Buckinghamshire Council’s neighbour/standard consultation expires on this date. Comments after this date may still be accepted up to the decision, but are not guaranteed to be considered — get objections in before the 7th.

7 Sep
Deadline to comment

Consultation expires Monday 7 September 2026

≤200
New dwellings proposed

Outline — access only decided now

66
Addresses consulted

Council neighbour consultation

17
Objections received

0 comments in support

3 Nov
Target decision date

Council's stated target

How to use this page: this is a starting draft, not a finished objection. It gathers the grounds that the application’s own technical reports and the local ward councillor’s formal objection put on the table. Before you submit, read the linked source documents for the specifics (numbers, distances, page references) and add your own local knowledge — the “add your own point” prompts below are there for exactly that.

01 Application snapshot

Reference
PL/26/05438/OA
Proposal
Outline planning application for up to 200 dwellings, including affordable housing, car parking, landscaped open space with sustainable drainage (SuDS) and associated infrastructure. Only “access” is being decided at this stage — layout, scale, appearance and landscaping are reserved for later approval.
Site
Land Between M25 and Thorney Lane South, Iver, Buckinghamshire — Green Belt land
Applicant documents
95 documents submitted, including a Green Belt Assessment, Landscape & Visual Impact Assessment, Transport Assessment, Flood Risk Assessment/SuDS strategy, Ecological Appraisal, Cultural Heritage Assessment, Noise, Air Quality and Health Impact Assessments.
Local objection
Ward councillor Paul Griffin has formally objected.
Consultation so far
66 consulted, 17 comments received, all 17 objections, 0 in support.

02 Grounds for objection

Each of these is a live issue the application’s own documents raise. Use the source links to pull exact figures from the planning portal before you write your final comment.

Green Belt land

Principal issue

The site is designated Green Belt. National planning policy treats new housing on Green Belt land as “inappropriate development”, which is by definition harmful and can only be approved if the applicant demonstrates “very special circumstances” that clearly outweigh that harm and any other harm identified. The site is not allocated for development in Buckinghamshire’s emerging Local Plan. Challenge whether the applicant’s own Green Belt Assessment genuinely establishes very special circumstances, and set out the harm to openness, encroachment into the countryside, and the risk of merging Iver with neighbouring settlements.

Check the source: Green Belt Assessment (Part 1)

Add your own point: e.g. how this specific field or hedgerow is used and valued locally, or how it separates Iver from the M25 corridor.

Traffic, access & highway safety

What’s being decided now

Access is the one matter actually being determined at this outline stage, so objections here carry the most direct weight. Up to 200 homes will add a substantial number of daily car movements onto Thorney Lane South and the surrounding network, which already carries traffic to and from the M25. Scrutinise the Transport Assessment’s trip generation figures and junction capacity modelling, and the Draft Travel Plan’s assumptions about how many trips will realistically switch to walking, cycling or public transport.

Check the source: Transport Assessment · Draft Travel Plan

Add your own point: e.g. existing congestion or collision points on Thorney Lane South, school-run pressure, or junction near-misses you have witnessed.

Flood risk & surface water drainage

The applicant has submitted a dedicated Flood Risk Assessment and SuDS strategy, which signals the site has hydrology issues to resolve. Building on undeveloped Green Belt land increases hard surfacing and can increase surface water runoff onto neighbouring land if drainage is not proven to cope with the additional homes. Check whether local flooding history is reflected in the assessment.

Check the source: Flood Risk Assessment

Add your own point: e.g. known flooding or drainage problems on or near the site.

Loss of trees, hedgerows & wildlife habitat

The application includes a tree survey, an Arboriculture Report, a Preliminary Ecological Appraisal and a Biodiversity Net Gain metric — all standard because development here will remove existing trees, hedgerows and countryside habitat. Check how many trees and hedgerows are proposed for removal versus retention, and whether the claimed biodiversity net gain is realistic or largely off-site or deferred.

Check the source: Arboriculture Report · Preliminary Ecological Appraisal

Add your own point: e.g. wildlife (bats, birds, badgers) regularly seen on the site.

Landscape & visual harm

A Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment has been submitted, assessing how the development would be seen from surrounding roads, footpaths and homes. Because outline permission would fix the principle of development even though layout and appearance are reserved, this is the stage to argue the site’s open, undeveloped character is itself the asset worth protecting — not just how the eventual buildings might look.

Check the source: Landscape & Visual Impact Assessment

Add your own point: e.g. views from footpaths or gardens that would be lost.

Noise & air quality from the M25

The site sits directly against the M25, and the applicant has had to commission both a Noise Assessment and an Air Quality Assessment as a result. Locating up to 200 new homes immediately next to one of the busiest motorways in the country raises genuine questions about the health and quality of life of future — and existing — residents, quite apart from any harm to the Green Belt.

Check the source: Noise Assessment · Air Quality Assessment

Add your own point: e.g. personal experience of motorway noise or pollution nearby.

Health impact

The applicant has also commissioned a Health Impact Assessment — itself an acknowledgement that the site’s motorway-adjacent, edge-of-settlement context needed a dedicated look at health effects. Use this document to test whether its conclusions match the lived reality of the location.

Check the source: Health Impact Assessment

Add your own point: e.g. proximity to GP surgeries or schools already at capacity.

Heritage impact

A Cultural Heritage Assessment has been submitted covering the site’s setting and any nearby heritage assets. Residents with local history knowledge should check whether the assessment has correctly identified everything of heritage value in the vicinity.

Check the source: Cultural Heritage Assessment

Add your own point: e.g. locally valued heritage features near the site.

Cumulative impact with the nearby proposed data centre

Cllr Griffin’s objection flags that this site would also sit adjacent to a separately proposed data centre. Neither application should be assessed in isolation — residents can reasonably ask the Council to weigh the combined effect of both schemes (traffic, noise, construction disruption, visual impact) rather than each in a vacuum.

Add your own point: e.g. what you know about the neighbouring data centre proposal.

Infrastructure & local services capacity

The application includes a 22-part utilities report, which reflects the scale of power, water and drainage reinforcement this development would require. Press the Council on whether local schools, GP surgeries and roads have spare capacity for up to 200 additional households, and whether developer contributions (via Section 106/CIL) would actually fund the improvements needed.

Add your own point: e.g. current waiting times at local GP surgeries or school place shortages.

Prematurity — not part of the Local Plan

Because the site is not allocated for housing in Buckinghamshire’s emerging Local Plan, approving it now would pre-empt the plan-led process that is supposed to decide, in a coordinated way and with public consultation, where the district’s new homes should go. Residents can argue the application is premature and would undermine confidence in that plan-making process.

Add your own point: e.g. why the plan-led process matters to you.

02b Critical analysis of the applicant’s case

Read against the applicant’s own submitted documents — Planning Statement, Green Belt Assessment, the Council’s published pre-application advice, and the heritage, flood, transport, noise, air quality, ecology and landscape reports. The housing shortfall is real; the case fails elsewhere.

Golden Rules — affordable housing

Decisive

Planning Statement 10.4 / pre-app advice

Claim: 40% affordable housing described as “significantly policy compliant” and compliant with the Golden Rules.

Why it fails: The Council’s own pre-application advice says 50% is required (Core Strategy CP3 40% + 15pp, capped at 50%) and records the applicant agreeing to it. The offer was cut by 10 percentage points before submission, so NPPF para 155(d) is not met and “not inappropriate” grey belt status falls away.

Grey Belt status — scheduled monument

Decisive

Green Belt Assessment 6.6 / Cultural Heritage Assessment

Claim: The scheduled monument (NHLE 1006944, probable Bronze Age barrow) inside the site is “a design opportunity rather than an obstacle to development”.

Why it fails: Footnote 7 assets are excluded from the grey belt definition where their policies give a strong reason to refuse or restrict. National policy gives great weight to designated heritage assets and treats harm to scheduled monuments as requiring wholly exceptional justification. The report never performs that test.

Grey Belt status — flood risk

Decisive

Flood Risk Assessment 6.3.2–6.3.3, 9.2.2

Claim: Flood Zone 1, majority very low surface water risk; no sequential test needed under the para 175 exception.

Why it fails: The FRA’s own mapping shows a High-risk surface water flow path through the centre of the site and a “low to high risk” pooling area at the southern access. The para 175 exception requires no built development or access route in an area at risk from any source, so the exception is not made out and “areas at risk of flooding” is a second footnote 7 trigger.

Very Special Circumstances

Strong

Planning Statement 4.10, 9

Claim: Housing land supply of 0.91 years in the South Planning Area amounts to VSC clearly outweighing Green Belt harm.

Why it fails: Benefits are listed but harm is never weighed: loss of openness (Samuel Smith), encroachment on countryside — purpose (c) is deliberately not assessed — admitted permanent moderate adverse visual effects, heritage setting harm, and noise/air burdens on future occupants (“any other harm”, Redhill Aerodrome). Officers already advised housing delivery alone is unlikely to suffice.

Development plan compliance

Strong

Planning Statement 10.1

Claim: The proposal “is in accordance with the Development Plan read as a whole”.

Why it fails: The same statement accepts the scheme is inappropriate development in the Green Belt requiring VSC. It cannot be both. No development plan policy is identified that supports the principle of development here, and the Ivers Neighbourhood Plan makes no allocation.

Brownfield claim

Strong

Planning Statement 4.10

Claim: The site has “previously developed (brownfield) characteristics”.

Why it fails: Contradicted three ways: the applicant’s own Green Belt Assessment (“greenfield site … open agricultural land”), officer pre-app advice (“the land is not previously developed land”), and the heritage map regression showing continuous agricultural use.

Archaeological evaluation

Strong

Cultural Heritage Assessment; pre-app advice

Claim: Trial trench evaluation “would likely” follow after consent; the monument will sit in open space with no impact.

Why it fails: Policy requires field evaluation before determination where sites include archaeological assets; officers asked for trenching at pre-app and none has been submitted. 2018 geophysics (from another project) shows further ditched enclosures. Neither the Council nor Historic England can know what permission would commit to disturbance.

Traffic and junction capacity

Strong

Transport Assessment (Pell Frischmann)

Claim: Net increase of only 15 AM / 9 PM vehicles once traffic is netted off a consented 250-space station car park; assessment limited to the site access.

Why it fails: The car park consented in 2017 has never been built, its rationale is overtaken by the Elizabeth line, and a live application proposes the parking elsewhere — a fallback needs a real prospect of implementation (Mansell). Strip the netting and c.960 daily movements have never been modelled at any junction beyond the access. Distribution uses 2011 Census data.

Noise and living conditions

Strong

Noise Assessment (Inacoustic)

Claim: Acceptable internal conditions achievable with enhanced glazing, alternative ventilation, bunds and orientation controls.

Why it fails: Homes hemmed by the M25, the Great Western Main Line and Thorney Lane South can only meet standards with windows shut. Gardens and play space cannot be glazed — external amenity guidelines are conceded as not always achievable. All of it depends on layout and glazing fixed at reserved matters, not by this permission.

Air quality

Supporting

Air Quality Assessment (RSK)

Claim: NO₂ c.25 µg/m³ at the M25 boundary, all objectives met in 2030; impacts negligible.

Why it fails: Site monitoring was too short to be used for formal verification; the model was verified against three roadside urban tubes, not motorway-edge receptors. Compliance in 2030 assumes national fleet improvements. Modelled PM2.5 of 9–10 µg/m³ is roughly double the WHO 2021 guideline — legal compliance is not healthy placemaking.

Ecology and biodiversity net gain

Strong

Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (Cotswold)

Claim: Biodiversity net gain achievable; protected species adequately surveyed.

Why it fails: The BNG conclusion still reads “a x % gain” — no figure at all against a statutory 10% minimum. Bat activity work is recorded on a single June date against guidance expecting multiple seasonal visits; breeding birds on two. Red-listed starling and house sparrow recorded. Much of the claimed gain sits on the same land already counted as SuDS, monument buffer and open space.

Landscape and visual harm

Supporting

LVIA (Highstone Design)

Claim: Effects reduce over time with planting; the site is unremarkable pasture.

Why it fails: It still admits moderate adverse visual effects at Year 1 and Year 15 for high-sensitivity residential receptors — permanent harm on its own terms, softened only by planting whose establishment is assumed. Written by the scheme’s own architects.

Independence of the evidence

Supporting

Green Belt Assessment & LVIA (Highstone Design)

Claim: The site “could reasonably be categorised as Grey Belt” and VSC exist.

Why it fails: The project architects assessed their own scheme, assert VSC in the introduction before any analysis, misstate the grey belt test, never assess Green Belt purpose (c), concede “a degree of sprawl” then discount it, and name the client inconsistently.

Multi-counted open space

Supporting

Masterplan; pre-app advice

Claim: Generous green space, SuDS, ecological enhancement and monument setting all provided.

Why it fails: The same southern hectares are counted as Golden Rules green space, SuDS attenuation, biodiversity gain, play space and the monument buffer. Officers warned SuDS basins in open space “can severely reduce the recreational value of green space”.

Colne Valley Regional Park

Supporting

Core Strategy CP9

Claim: Not mentioned anywhere in the Planning Statement or ecology report.

Why it fails: The site lies within the Colne Valley Regional Park, which the development plan requires to be conserved and enhanced. A designation the application simply ignores cannot have been weighed.

Missing and unresolved material

Strong

Pre-application matrix (every topic “Unresolved”)

Claim: The scheme has been through pre-application discussion.

Why it fails: No trial trenching, no sequential test, no BNG figure, no junction modelling beyond the access, and the draft s106 heads of terms are not among the 95 published documents. Two different pre-app references appear in the file, one for a 250–300 dwelling scheme. Officers concluded the scheme as submitted “would not yet be considered to be outweighed by the identified benefits”.

03 What the local ward councillor has already said

Cllr Paul Griffin has lodged a formal objection to the application, describing it as building on Green Belt land that sits outside the draft Local Plan, and warning that placing new homes hard against the M25 would mean “inherent pollution” and noise for future residents — compounded by a separately proposed data centre next door.

Cllr Paul Griffin, Iver ward, in his submitted comment on PL/26/05438/OA

This is the step that counts

04 How to submit an objection

Buckinghamshire Council can only take account of comments submitted through its own planning portal, quoting reference PL/26/05438/OA. It takes about five minutes.

  1. 1

    Read a couple of the source documents above so your comment cites specifics (a figure, a page, a named issue) rather than general disapproval — planning officers give more weight to comments that raise genuine planning reasons.

  2. 2

    Open the Council’s page for this application, choose the Comments tab, then select Make a comment. The direct buttons below already open application PL/26/05438/OA.

  3. 3

    Submit before Monday 7 September 2026. Include your name and address (the Council needs this to register a valid comment) and reference the application number PL/26/05438/OA.

  4. 4

    Focus on planning grounds — Green Belt harm, traffic/access, flooding, ecology, landscape, heritage, noise/air quality, health, infrastructure capacity, prematurity — rather than personal or financial objections (e.g. “it will reduce my house price”), which carry little formal weight.

  5. 5

    Encourage neighbours to submit their own comments in their own words — near-identical form-letter objections carry less weight than individually written ones covering the same grounds.

Write in your own words. Identical copied letters are counted as a single representation, so personalise at least one paragraph with how the development affects you.

Step 2 — write yours

Build your own objection letter

Tick the grounds that matter to you, add a few words in your own voice, and we'll turn them into a unique, properly worded objection. Every letter comes out different — case officers give far less weight to identical copy-and-paste submissions.

1. Why do you oppose it?

How would this affect you, your street, your commute, your family? A sentence or two of real local detail is the most valuable part of any objection.

Nothing you type is stored — it is used only to draft your letter.

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