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Street Record Watlington Road Cowley Oxford Oxfordshire

25/03072/SCREENEIA ScreeningApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 31 December 2025

Council decision: Not EIA DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A PLANNING APPLICATION. THIS IS FOR CONSULTATION PURPOSES ONLY. The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulation 2017 (as amended) - Proposed high voltage cable to be installed between a permitted solar farm facility at Burcot Farm in South Oxfordshire (South Oxfordshire LPA ref: P23/S4132/FUL) and Cowley Local Substation in Oxford.

Received
14 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackbird Leys Ward
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.18 Dec
  4. Target31 Dec
  5. Decided31 Dec

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Street Record Watlington Road Cowley Oxford Oxfordshire. Oxford has handled 1,139 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker 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.

80% of outline 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

Application type
EIA Screening
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Blackbird Leys Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2025
Consultation expiry
18 December 2025
Consultation start
27 November 2025
Consultation end
18 December 2025
Last date for comments
18 December 2025
Target decision date
31 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Planning Manager Ethical Power Ltd Unit 9 Dunchideock Barton Dunchideock Exeter EX2 9UA

Planning decision

Statutory period
47 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 December 2025
Site notice end
18 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
16
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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