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Entrance To Westgate Shopping Centre Castle Street Oxford Oxfordshire

25/02597/FULRefused

Refused on 27 November 2025

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Removal of existing BT payphones. Installation of 1no. BT Street Hub and associated works.

Received
6 October 2025
  1. Received6 Oct
  2. Validated6 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 52 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Entrance To Westgate Shopping Centre Castle Street Oxford Oxfordshire. Oxford has handled 6,311 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Oxford's typical decision time. The site is in 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address.

Application details

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 October 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: 29a, Castle StreetOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Houses in Multiple Occupation Article 4 Direction
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    6 Oct

    Removal of existing BT payphones. Installation of 1no. BT Street Hub and associated works.

    This applicationRefusedApplication25/02597/FUL
  2. 2025
    6 Oct

    Display of 2no. Internally illuminated digital LCD display screens on either side of street hub unit.

    RefusedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside25/02598/ADV

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