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Alexanders Hair 8 Newbury Street Wantage OX12 8BS

P23/V1173/LBOther (Listed Bldg. Consent)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 12 July 2023

Council decision: Listed Building Consent

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

Proposal

Change of use of the property, fixing ventilation grille, internal alterations to replace decoration and provide seating and bar/kitchen facilities (Amended plan and Design, Access and Heritage Statement received 10 July 2023 and description updated to omit external signage).

Received
17 May 2023
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated17 May
  3. Consult.21 Jun
  4. Target12 Jul
  5. Decided12 Jul

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Alexanders Hair 8 Newbury Street Wantage OX12 8BS. Vale of White Horse has handled 1,069 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Wantage Town Centre conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,597 applications in total for the OX12 postcode area.

96% of heritage 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
OX12 8BS
Application type
Other (Listed Bldg. Consent)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 May 2023
Consultation expiry
21 June 2023
Consultation start
23 May 2023
Consultation end
21 June 2023
Target decision date
12 July 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Wantage Town Centre Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: 6, Newbury StreetOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • Brownfield land register: Land and Buildings at 8 & 8A Church Street Wantage OX12 8BLRegister site at or near this address
  • 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

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. 2023
    17 May

    Change of use of the property, fixing ventilation grille, internal alterations to replace decoration and…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consentP23/V1173/LB
  2. 2023
    16 May

    Change the use of the building from a hair studio to a restaurant.

    ApprovedOther (Law. Dev. (proposed))Filed alongsideP23/V1160/LDP

Source: Vale of White Horse

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