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Ferngrove Portway Faringdon Oxon SN7 7DY

P08/V1522MajorApproved
Full

Approved on 25 September 2008

Council decision: Planning Permission

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of redundant elderly persons home. Erection of 11 no affordable houses and flats. (Re-submission)

Received
26 June 2008
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated27 Jun
  3. Consult.24 Jul
  4. Target25 Sep
  5. Decided25 Sep

Decided in 90 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Ferngrove Portway Faringdon Oxon SN7 7DY. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. The site is in 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 2,156 applications in total for the SN7 postcode area.

95% of full applications at Vale of White Horse District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SN7 7DY
Application type
Major
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
11

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 June 2008
Consultation expiry
24 July 2008
Consultation start
27 June 2008
Consultation end
24 July 2008
Target decision date
25 September 2008

Planning decision

Statutory period
90 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
51

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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.

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Source: Vale of White Horse

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