Aylesbury files listed-building applications at 3 times the national rate.
Buckinghamshire received 1,590 planning applications for the Aylesbury area in 2025. Listed-building works made up 7.4% of those, against a national share of 2.4%, a ratio of 3.1 times. Garage conversions also ran at more than double the national rate. The approval rate of 86.9% sits broadly in line with the national 87.6%.
The year in one line
Aylesbury submitted 1,590 planning applications to Buckinghamshire in 2025, with listed-building works at 3.1 times and garage conversions at 2.1 times the national share, pointing to a town adapting an older, protected housing stock.
What Aylesbury Is Building
Extensions dominate, but listed-building works set the town apart.
Home extensions were the most common project type submitted to Buckinghamshire in 2025, at 30.8% of all applications, a little above the national 29.1%. Listed-building works made up 7.4% of the mix, against a national share of 2.4%, a ratio of 3.1 times. Garage conversions came in at 5.2%, more than double the national 2.4%. This is the application profile of a county town with a large stock of older and protected buildings.
Applications submitted to Buckinghamshire in 2025 within the Aylesbury area, by project type.
Above the norm
Listed-building works run at 3.1 times the national share in Aylesbury and garage conversions at 2.1 times. Both categories reflect adapting and altering an established stock of homes and heritage buildings rather than building new.
The council verdict
Broadly in line with the national rate.
Of the 2,501 applications decided across 2024 and 2025, Buckinghamshire approved 2,173 (86.9%) and refused 328 (13.1%), against a national refusal rate of 12.4%. That is roughly 1 in 8 applications turned down, close to the national norm.
About 1 in 8 Aylesbury applications was turned down.
applications refused, at a 13.1% refusal rate against a 12.4% national norm. Aylesbury's approval rate is broadly in line with the rest of the country.
Aylesbury vs The National Norm
A heritage town adapting its stock.
Set Aylesbury's application mix against the national average and the listed-building signal is clear. At 7.4% of all applications, listed-building works run at 3.1 times the national 2.4%. Garage conversions at 5.2% run at 2.1 times the national 2.4%. Loft conversions also sit above the norm. Home extensions make up 30.8% against a national 29.1%. The pattern points to a county town with a large stock of protected and older buildings, where owners adapt what exists.
Aylesbury submits listed-building applications at more than three times the national rate. Together with garage conversions at 2.1 times, the mix points to a town adapting and protecting an older housing stock.
Each bar is Aylesbury's share of applications submitted in 2025; the marker is the national share. Listed-building works are the town's clearest divergence.
Meanwhile, the market
Prices kept climbing alongside the building work.
Permission may be harder to win here, but the market has held its footing: the average Aylesbury home still sold for well over four hundred thousand pounds in the latest full year.
Aylesbury's planning data points to a county town with a strong heritage character. Listed-building applications run at more than three times the national share, and garage conversions at more than double. The approval rate sits in line with the national norm. This is a place where owners are working within an older, protected housing stock, adapting it rather than replacing it.
Where the numbers come from
Planning Data
Applications submitted to Buckinghamshire in 2025 within the Aylesbury area, classified from each application's published description. Decision rates are computed over the pooled 2024-2025 window for stability.
Decision Rates
Approval rate is approvals as a share of approvals plus refusals. The national benchmarks are computed the same way across all decided applications in England and Wales.
Sales Data
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for the Aylesbury post town, the latest full year's completions, with growth measured against the previous year.
The Real Applications
Open the planning applications behind the numbers.
These are real applications submitted in the Aylesbury area, from the listed-building work and garage conversions the town does most to a pair of refusals. Open any one to see its full record.
33 Marston Gate, Broughton HP22 7AA
A detached garage was part-converted into habitable space with bi-fold doors, one of the garage conversions Aylesbury submits at more than twice the national rate. The council granted it.
See this property's full record20 Elm Leys, Wingrave HP22 4FL
Permission was granted to turn an attached garage into living accommodation, another of the garage conversions that set the town apart from the national mix.
See this property's full record30 Anstey Close, Waddesdon HP18 0NB
An existing side construction was demolished and rebuilt as a larger side extension with extra living and storage space, the most common project type in the area. It was approved.
See this property's full recordCowleas Spicketts Lane, Cuddington HP18 0AY
An existing dwelling was approved for demolition and replacement with a new detached home, a garage and on-site parking, one of the larger schemes in the year.
See this property's full record13 Wendover Way HP21 7PR
A two-storey side extension with single-storey front and rear additions, a loft conversion and a rear dormer was turned down, one of the 328 applications refused across 2024-2025.
See this property's full record65 Perry Street, Wendover HP22 6DJ
A householder plan for a loft conversion and new dormer was refused, marking a 13.1% refusal rate that sits close to the 12.4% national norm.
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