First Floor 21 Market Square Bicester OX26 6AD

22/02802/M56Retail and sui generis to ResidentialApproved

Approved on 8 November 2022

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of first and second floor office space from Eg(i) (offices) to C3 (residential) to form 2 residential flats

Received: 13 September 2022
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cherwell District Council
Ward: Bicester East

ReceivedReceived13 Sep
ValidatedValidated13 Sep
Consult.Consultation18 Oct
TargetTarget Date8 Nov
DecidedDecided8 Nov

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at First Floor 21 Market Square Bicester OX26 6AD. Cherwell has handled 10,279 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days quicker than Cherwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Bicester conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Bicester East. We hold 1,773 applications in total for the OX26 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: OX26 6AD
Application type: Retail and sui generis to Residential
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Bicester

Planning application dates

Date validated: 13 September 2022
Last date for comments: 18 October 2022
Target decision date: 8 November 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Mr Des Dunlop Suite 3 Westbury Court Church Road Westbury on Trym Bristol BS9 3EF

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 11

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Bicester
Listed building: Grade II: 19, Market SquareOn or next to this site · +5 more
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Cherwell

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