436 Cowley Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX4 2DW
Refused on 3 October 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application to certify that the existing House in Multiple Occupation (Use Class C4) is lawful development.
- Received
- 4 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Oxford City Council
- Ward
- Donnington Ward
- ReceivedReceived4 Feb
- ValidatedValidated12 Feb
- Consult.Consultation21 Mar
- TargetTarget Date9 Apr
- DecidedDecided3 Oct
Decided in 233 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 436 Cowley Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX4 2DW. Oxford has handled 293 applications of this type. This one was decided in 241 days, 26 weeks longer than Oxford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Donnington Ward. We hold 1,718 applications in total for the OX4 postcode area.
80% of amendment applications at Oxford City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- OX4 2DW
- Application type
- Cert of Lawfulness - Existing Use
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 21 March 2025
- Consultation start
- 19 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 21 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 21 March 2025
- Last date for comments
- 21 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 9 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 7 Woodbine Terrace Church Lane Bishops Castle SY9 5AF United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 27 February 2025
- Site notice start
- 27 February 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13747427
- Documents
- 7
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4 Direction
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.
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