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Church View Manor Road Great Bourton OX17 1QP

24/03218/FFull DevelopmentRefused
Full

Refused on 21 May 2025

Planning committee

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

Proposal

Change of Use of The Bell Inn Public House (Sui Generis Use) to use as a dwellinghouse (Class C3 Use) and associated minor external alterations to the building and works

Received
2 December 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Cropredy, Sibfords And Wroxton
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.11 Jan
  4. Target18 Jul
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 170 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Church View Manor Road Great Bourton OX17 1QP. Cherwell has handled 4,283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 170 days, 15 weeks longer than Cherwell's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 218 applications across Cropredy, Sibfords And Wroxton. We hold 2,181 applications in total for the OX17 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
OX17 1QP
Application type
Full Development
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Bourton

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2024
Last date for comments
11 January 2025
Target decision date
18 July 2025
Committee meeting
15 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Will Whitelock Oriel House 42 North Bar Banbury OX16 0TH

Planning decision

Statutory period
228 days

Appeal history

3372504
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: HearingDecision: 9 March 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
304

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

© 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.

Source: Cherwell

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