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Elm Cottage Mill Road Lower Shiplake RG9 3LW

P23/S2826/HHOther (Householder)Refused
Householder

Refused on 19 February 2025

Council decision: Refusal of Planning Permission

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Outbuilding in garden to use as a home office and recreational sport use.

Received
22 August 2023
  1. Received22 Aug
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.18 Oct
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided19 Feb

Decided in 519 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Elm Cottage Mill Road Lower Shiplake RG9 3LW. South Oxfordshire has handled 3,382 applications of this type. This one was decided in 547 days, 70 weeks longer than South Oxfordshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,428 applications in total for the RG9 postcode area.

96% of full applications at South Oxfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RG9 3LW
Application type
Other (Householder)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2023
Consultation expiry
18 October 2023
Consultation start
27 September 2023
Consultation end
18 October 2023
Target decision date
14 November 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Brownfield land register: Sydney Harrison, House Mill Road, Lower ShiplakeRegister site at or near this address

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Source: South Oxfordshire

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