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5 Bowes House, Lechlade Road, Faringdon, SN7 8AL

P22/V0987/FULFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 27 January 2023

Council decision: Refusal of Planning PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of retirement apartments (Category II type) with communal facilities and car parking. (As amended per plans and documents submitted in October 2022 and drainage information submitted in November 2022)

Received
19 April 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Agent
The Planning Bureau Ltd
  1. Received19 Apr
  2. Validated25 Apr
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target27 Jan
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 277 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 5 Bowes House, Lechlade Road, Faringdon, SN7 8AL. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 283 days, 32 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. The site is in 3 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 8AL
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 April 2022
Consultation expiry
4 June 2022
Consultation start
6 May 2022
Consultation end
4 June 2022
Target decision date
27 January 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Planning Bureau Ltd

Planning decision

Statutory period
277 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
98

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Faringdon Conservation AreaNext to the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: Chase HouseOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: 5B Lechlade Road, FaringdonRegister site at or near this address · +2 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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

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Planning history at this site

7 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    2 Aug

    Certificate of Lawfulness to determine whether the construction of part of the car parking spaces approved…

    ApprovedAmendmentP23/V1802/LDE
  2. 2023
    12 May

    Discharge of condition 3 (Biodiversity Mitigation and Enhancement Strategy) in application P20/V3172/RM

    PendingDischarge of conditionsP23/V1142/DIS
  3. 2023
    17 Feb

    Discharge of condition 4(Thames Water condition) & 5(Surface and Foul water drainage strategy) on application…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP23/V0442/DIS
  4. 2023
    15 Feb

    Discharge of condition 3 (Biodiversity Mitigation and Enhancement Strategy) on application P20/V3172/RM

    RefusedDischarge of conditionsP23/V0417/DIS
  5. 2023
    15 Feb

    Discharge of condition 3 (Slab and ridge heights to be agreed) in application P17/V1310/O

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP23/V0416/DIS
  6. 2023
    15 Feb

    Discharge of condition 2 (Tree Protection Plan) on application reference number P20/V3172/RM

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP23/V0413/DIS

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