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Merton Croft West End Lane Merton OX25 2NG

25/02734/FFull DevelopmentApproved
Full

Approved on 17 December 2025

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of a single storey contemporary garden building to be used as a home office

Received
16 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Launton And Otmoor
  1. Received16 Oct
  2. Validated16 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Dec
  4. Target30 Dec
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 62 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Merton Croft West End Lane Merton OX25 2NG. Cherwell has handled 4,283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 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 175 applications across Launton And Otmoor. We hold 1,244 applications in total for the OX25 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
OX25 2NG
Application type
Full Development
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Merton

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 October 2025
Last date for comments
5 December 2025
Target decision date
30 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Miss Lily Roberts Green Retreats Ltd Hangar 4 Westcott Venture Park Aylesbury HP18 0XB

Planning decision

Statutory period
75 days

Additional information

Documents
10

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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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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