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Isis House And Windrush Court Watlington Road Cowley Oxford Oxfordshire OX4 6LX

25/00702/VARVariation of conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 September 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of condition 2 (Develop in accordance with approved plans) of planning permission 21/00317/FUL (Demolition of existing buildings. Erection of a replacement building to accommodate office and laboratory space including landscaping, stores and car and bicycle parking.) to allow for amendments to the approved scheme including the increase in height of building. Alteration to internal layout including reconfiguration of office, laboratory, plant space and building core, reduction in Level 2 roof plant and addition of external plant with acoustic louvres, increase in office area and widened main entrance stair. Alterations to fenestration including reconfiguration and addition of windows and alterations to materials. Alterations to access, parking and servicing, alterations to existing substation and to the stores including relocation and alterations to enclosure details and installation of additional sub-station. Alterations to landscaping including removal of trees to frontage and replacement with structured planting. (amended plans, and drainage information)

Received
21 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackbird Leys Ward
  1. Received21 Mar
  2. Validated21 Mar
  3. Consult.16 Sep
  4. Target23 Sep
  5. Decided23 Sep

Decided in 186 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Isis House And Windrush Court Watlington Road Cowley Oxford Oxfordshire OX4 6LX. Oxford has handled 799 applications of this type. This one was decided in 186 days, 19 weeks longer than Oxford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Blackbird Leys Ward. We hold 1,718 applications in total for the OX4 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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 6LX
Application type
Variation of condition
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 March 2025
Consultation expiry
16 September 2025
Consultation start
26 August 2025
Consultation end
16 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start
22 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
5 June 2025
Last date for comments
16 September 2025
Target decision date
23 September 2025
Permission expires
23 September 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bidwells LLP Eaton House, Wallbrook Court North Hinksey Lane OXFORD OX2 0QS

Planning decision

Statutory period
186 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13805050
Documents
58
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

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