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Parklands School Besselsleigh Appleton Oxford

P18/V0359/FULMajor (Full Application)Approved
Full

Approved on 8 March 2019

Council decision: Planning Permission

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Refurbishment and Conversion of the existing Manor House into 8 apartments. Demolition of all other existing outbuildings and extension to Manor House. Erection of 36 new dwellings comprising 9 apartments within extension to Manor House and 27 houses within the grounds of the site. Retention of the existing site access, plus new associated parking and landscaping.

Received
9 February 2018
  1. Received9 Feb
  2. Validated15 Feb
  3. Consult.21 Mar
  4. Target11 Mar
  5. Decided8 Mar

Decided in 386 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Parklands School Besselsleigh Appleton Oxford. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 392 days, 48 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

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

Application type
Major (Full Application)
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
36

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 February 2018
Consultation expiry
21 March 2018
Consultation start
21 February 2018
Consultation end
21 March 2018
Target decision date
11 March 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
389 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
183

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Vale of White Horse
  • Ancient woodland: Bessel's Leigh Common, New Copse, Colliers CopseNext to the site · +1 more
  • 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 (20)

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, 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.

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© 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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