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Burcot Farm Burcot Oxfordshire OX14 3GW

P25/S3618/SCROther (Screening Opinion)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 24 November 2025

Council decision: EIA not required

Proposal

8.4KM Cable route to be installed between Solar Farm at Burcot Farm and Cowley Local Substation, Oxfordshire permitted under application P23/S4132/FUL, appeal APP/Q3115/W/24/3350890.

Received
17 November 2025
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 7 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Burcot Farm Burcot Oxfordshire OX14 3GW. South Oxfordshire has handled 540 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 7 weeks quicker than South Oxfordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,985 applications in total for the OX14 postcode area.

84% of outline 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
OX14 3GW
Application type
Other (Screening Opinion)
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2025
Target decision date
8 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: South Oxfordshire
  • 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, 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. 2026
    4 Nov

    Discharge of condition 12 (Skylark Mitigation Strategy) on application ref. P23/S4132/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditionsP26/S5185/DIS
  2. 2026
    21 Oct

    Discharge of Condition 7 (Written Scheme) & Condition 13 (Watercourse Crossing) of Planning Permission…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP26/S4896/DIS
  3. 2026
    6 Mar

    Non Material Amendment to application ref P23/S4132/FUL

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentP26/S0708/NM
  4. 2025
    17 Nov

    8.4KM Cable route to be installed between Solar Farm at Burcot Farm and Cowley Local Substation, Oxfordshire…

    This applicationApprovedOutlineP25/S3618/SCR
  5. 2023
    4 Dec

    Installation of a ground mounted solar photovoltaic array, co-located battery energy storage scheme (BES)…

    RefusedFull ApplicationPart ofP23/S4132/FUL

Source: South Oxfordshire

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