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19 Lower Cherwell Street Banbury OX16 5AY

24/02662/FFull DevelopmentApproved
Full

Approved on 6 December 2024

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use of building to an MOT testing centre

Received
3 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Banbury Grimsbury And Hightown
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.22 Nov
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided6 Dec

Decided in 39 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 19 Lower Cherwell Street Banbury OX16 5AY. Cherwell has handled 4,283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Banbury Grimsbury And Hightown. 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 5AY
Application type
Full Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Banbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2024
Last date for comments
22 November 2024
Target decision date
23 December 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Lincoln Chambers 11a Market Place Banbury OX16 5UA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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© 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.

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