17 Sycamore Road Launton Bicester OX26 5DZ

25/01832/FFull DevelopmentApproved

Full

Approved on 9 October 2025

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Rear extension and 1.8m high rear garden boundary fence to provide privacy and security

Received: 15 July 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cherwell District Council
Ward: Launton And Otmoor

ReceivedReceived15 Jul
ValidatedValidated23 Jul
Consult.Consultation8 Oct
TargetTarget Date10 Oct
DecidedDecided9 Oct

Decided in 78 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a rear extension at 17 Sycamore Road Launton Bicester OX26 5DZ. Cherwell has handled 4,283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 3 weeks longer than Cherwell's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 175 applications across Launton And Otmoor. We hold 1,773 applications in total for the OX26 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: OX26 5DZ
Application type: Full Development
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Launton

Planning application dates

Date validated: 23 July 2025
Last date for comments: 8 October 2025
Target decision date: 10 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Benjamin Hill Designs 12 Chazey Close Chazey Heath RG4 9ET

Planning decision

Statutory period: 79 days

Additional information

Documents: 13

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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