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61 High Street Banbury OX16 5JR

24/02431/FFull DevelopmentApproved
Full

Approved on 17 January 2025

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

RETROSPECTIVE - Change of Use of the existing ground floor unit (from financial services) to restaurant including ancillary hot food takeaway (Use Class Sui-Generis). Change of Use of existing upper floors (from office space) to 4 studio flats. Changes to the external elevations, including a new flue to the rear. Replace windows to front upper floors - re-submission of 24/01776/F

Received
10 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Banbury Cross And Neithrop
  1. Received10 Sep
  2. Validated7 Oct
  3. Consult.2 Dec
  4. Target20 Jan
  5. Decided17 Jan

Decided in 102 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 61 High Street Banbury OX16 5JR. Cherwell has handled 4,283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 129 days, 9 weeks longer than Cherwell's typical decision time. The site is in 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 113 applications across Banbury Cross And Neithrop. We hold 1,041 applications in total for the OX16 postcode area.

92% of full applications at Cherwell District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
OX16 5JR
Application type
Full Development
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Banbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 October 2024
Last date for comments
2 December 2024
Target decision date
20 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
84 Hillview Crescent Banbury OX16 1BP

Planning decision

Statutory period
105 days

Additional information

Documents
17

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: Banbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: CurrysOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: 57 - 58 High Street, BanburyRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2024
    10 Sep

    RETROSPECTIVE - Change of Use of the existing ground floor unit (from financial services) to restaurant…

    This applicationApprovedFull24/02431/F
  2. 2024
    2 Jul

    Retrospective - Change of Use of the existing ground floor unit (from financial services) to restaurant…

    WithdrawnFull DevelopmentPart of24/01776/F

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    22 Oct

    Discharge of Condition 4 (extract ductwork) of 24/02431/F

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions25/02768/DISC

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