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Electricity Substation On The South Side Of Watlington Road Cowley Oxford Oxfordshire OX4 6NB

25/02919/CPURefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 19 December 2025

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Application to certify that the erection of a new GIS hall building measuring approximately 41.315m in length, 20.195m in width, and 14.5m in height, to accommodate 13no. 132kV circuit breakers (with the provision of space for an additional future 4no. 132kV circuit breakers) and associated storage space to enable SEPD to carry out its statutory undertaking would be lawful development.(Amended description).

Received
4 November 2025
  1. Received4 Nov
  2. Validated4 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 45 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Electricity Substation On The South Side Of Watlington Road Cowley Oxford Oxfordshire OX4 6NB. Oxford has handled 6,311 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Oxford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,718 applications in total for the OX4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
OX4 6NB

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 November 2025

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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