Patcham Court Farm revised planning application

Royal Mail has submitted amendments to their planning application for Patcham Court Farm. This followed feedback by planners to the scheme submitted in July 2022, informed by comments from local residents, council officers, councillors and other statutory bodies.

The proposal still seeks to build a storage and distribution facility with associated access, parking and landscaping. The plans include two substations and an express vehicle maintenance facility.

In the amendments there are no proposed changes to the type of development or to the boundary of the site. There are, however, alterations to the pedestrian access, landscaping, parking and boundary treatment.

Changes to the layout

These include:

•              The realigning the footpath along Vale Avenue, the pedestrian access into the site, and the crossing point along the frontage, as well as additional planting

•              Relocating the disabled parking area and identification of a routing plan around staff car park

•              Providing seven additional motorcycle parks

•              Increasing electric vehicle charging points

•              A new perimeter wall around the substations, and

•              The realigning palisade fencing around the site.

Vehicle and pedestrian access to the site will be from the south and south-west on Vale Avenue. Pedestrian links will be provided to the building and throughout the car park.

Find out more

More information about the site and the planning application can be found on our Patcham Court Farm planning website page.

Royal Mail has provided a specific ‘Planning Update Note’, clearly setting out the alterations to the scheme. This and all of the documents which form the application are publicly available through our website planning register. The application number is BH2022/02232.

Have your say

The easiest way to comment on the application and these revisions is through our online planning register.

Anyone can provide comments at the planning application stage. Planning officers will consider all comments in their assessment and recommendations to the Planning Committee. While the initial consultation period has expired, comments will be considered up until the point that the application is decided by the Committee.

What happens next?

The site is allocated in the City Plan Part One for employment use as offices or a research and development facility. As Royal Mail’s proposed use for storage / distribution is not in accordance with the allocated use, the planning application will be carefully assessed against this policy and other policies in the City Plan Parts One and Two.

The comments received from residents and local stakeholders will be carefully considered along with responses from internal and external consultees.

Locally elected councillors on the Planning Committee will make the final decision on the planning application. A decision is not expected before autumn 2023.