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Off Bicester Road Launton OX26 4SR

26/00282/TEL56Telecommunications Prior ApprovalApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 26 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions

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

Proposal

Proposed Base Station installation comprising of : The installation of a 20m high Valmont AWTG Tower, complete with 4No. antennas and 1No. 0.6m dish. Proposed installation of 1No. Equipment cabinet on concrete base at ground level with 4No. concrete bollards surrounding equipment along with associated ancillary works.

Received
2 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Launton And Otmoor
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target29 Mar
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Off Bicester Road Launton OX26 4SR. Cherwell has handled 97 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 11 days quicker than Cherwell's typical decision time. The site is in 6 listed buildings 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 1,773 applications in total for the OX26 postcode area.

100% of telecoms 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 4SR
Application type
Telecommunications Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Launton

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2026
Last date for comments
27 February 2026
Target decision date
29 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Gateley Hamer One Eleven Edmund Street Birmingham B3 2HJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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

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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