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50-51 Broad Street Banbury OX16 5BT

26/00356/FFull DevelopmentApproved
Full

Approved on 9 April 2026

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of Use of upper floor accommodation to create 2no residential apartments. Installation of entrance door to front elevation and replacement of first floor windows

Received
11 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Banbury Cross And Neithrop
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided9 Apr

Decided in 57 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 50-51 Broad Street Banbury OX16 5BT. Cherwell has handled 4,283 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 6 days quicker than Cherwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Banbury conservation area. 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 5BT
Application type
Full Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Banbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2026
Last date for comments
19 March 2026
Target decision date
9 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Sugarford House 46 South Bar Street Banbury OX16 9AB

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Banbury
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

© 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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