Colin Sanders Innovation Centre Mewburn Road Banbury OX16 9PA

25/01173/FFull DevelopmentApproved

Full

Approved on 10 July 2025

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of Use of Suites 8 and 9 from Office (Use Class E) to a Driving Test Centre (Sui Generis).

Received: 8 May 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cherwell District Council
Ward: Banbury Cross And Neithrop

ReceivedReceived8 May
ValidatedValidated19 May
Consult.Consultation14 Jun
TargetTarget Date14 Jul
DecidedDecided10 Jul

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Colin Sanders Innovation Centre Mewburn Road Banbury OX16 9PA. Cherwell has handled 4,283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days. There are no previous applications recorded 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 9PA
Application type: Full Development
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Banbury

Planning application dates

Date validated: 19 May 2025
Last date for comments: 14 June 2025
Target decision date: 14 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Newmark 12th Floor 45 Church Street Birmingham B3 2RT

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 21

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.

Source: Cherwell

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