Ray Valley Solar Park Ploughley Road Arncott Bicester OX25 1NX

26/00338/NMANon Material AmendmentsApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 6 March 2026

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Amendments to Condition 2 (Approved Plans) (proposed as non-material amendment to 20/00285/F) to include reintroduction of three Battery Energy Storage Systems with supporting Inverter/Transformer Skid

Received: 9 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cherwell District Council
Ward: Launton And Otmoor

ReceivedReceived9 Feb
ValidatedValidated9 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date9 Mar
DecidedDecided6 Mar

Decided in 25 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ray Valley Solar Park Ploughley Road Arncott Bicester OX25 1NX. Cherwell has handled 299 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 5 weeks quicker 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 1,244 applications in total for the OX25 postcode area.

87% of amendment 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 1NX
Application type: Non Material Amendments
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Fencott And Murcott

Planning application dates

Date validated: 9 February 2026
Target decision date: 9 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: MR ROBERT BOOTH 69 CARTER LANE LONDON EC4V 6AB

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Documents: 7

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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