Bletchingdon Park House Springwell Hill Bletchingdon OX5 3DW

26/01872/NMANon Material AmendmentsApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 August 2026

Council decision: PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

To amend the wording of Conditions 3, 4 and 5 relating to Great Crested Newts to remove references to a specific District Level Licensing scheme and instead refer more generally to the appropriate Natural England-authorised licensing or mitigation process (proposed as non material amendments of 25/00179/F)

Received: 23 July 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cherwell District Council
Ward: Launton And Otmoor

ReceivedReceived23 Jul
ValidatedValidated23 Jul
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date20 Aug
DecidedDecided4 Aug

Decided in 12 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Bletchingdon Park House Springwell Hill Bletchingdon OX5 3DW. Cherwell has handled 299 applications of this type. This one was decided in 12 days, 7 weeks quicker than Cherwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Vincent Square conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 9 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 175 applications across Launton And Otmoor. We hold 1,580 applications in total for the OX5 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: OX5 3DW
Application type: Non Material Amendments
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Bletchingdon

Planning application dates

Date validated: 23 July 2026
Target decision date: 20 August 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 77 Heyford Park Upper Heyford OX25 5HD

Planning decision

Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Documents: 4

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: Bletchingdon
Listed building: Grade II*: Bletchingdon ParkOn or next to this site
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 (20)

flood storage 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.

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.

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9 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Cherwell

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