Twelve Oaks Lechlade Road Highworth Swindon SN6 7QR

S/EIA/26/0344Environmental Impact AssessmentApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 April 2026

Council decision: EIA Screening OpinionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Request for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening Opinion for the erection of up to 520 no. dwellings.

Received: 12 March 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Swindon Borough Council
Ward: Blunsdon And Highworth

ReceivedReceived12 Mar
ValidatedValidated16 Mar
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date2 Apr
DecidedDecided15 Apr

Decided in 30 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Twelve Oaks Lechlade Road Highworth Swindon SN6 7QR. Swindon has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Swindon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Blunsdon And Highworth. We hold 2,845 applications in total for the SN6 postcode area.

88% of outline applications at Swindon Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: SN6 7QR
Application type: Environmental Impact Assessment
Scale / size: Large
Number of dwellings: 520
Parish: Highworth

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 March 2026
Target decision date: 2 April 2026
Permission expires: 15 April 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period: 17 days

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.

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Swindon

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