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Bishopswood Sports Centre Horsepond Road Gallowstree Common RG4 9BT

P25/S0051/T28Other (Telecoms 28 day not.)Approved

Approved on 27 January 2025

Council decision: Telecommunications Development (28) - Approval Granted

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

Proposal

The replacement of three antennas and the removal of three antennas at 25.90m with the installation of associated ancillary equipment on an existing 24.00m high lattice tower. The upgrade makes use of an existing telecommunications facility. The upgrade is minor in nature and will not increase height or visual impact of the existing site.

Received
8 January 2025
  1. Received8 Jan
  2. Validated8 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target5 Feb
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Bishopswood Sports Centre Horsepond Road Gallowstree Common RG4 9BT. South Oxfordshire has handled 102 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker than South Oxfordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 822 applications in total for the RG4 postcode area.

100% of telecoms 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
RG4 9BT
Application type
Other (Telecoms 28 day not.)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 January 2025
Target decision date
5 February 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): Chilterns
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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, 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.

Source: South Oxfordshire

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