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Youlbury Scout Activity Centre Youlbury Boars Hill Oxford OX1 5HD

P23/V1388/FULMinor (Full Application)Approved
Full

Approved on 7 August 2023

Council decision: Planning Permission

Proposal

New reception building and minor external alterations and an external plant to facilitate the conversion of the existing activity barn to a catering facility and dining room at Youlbury Scout Adventures camp, Boars Hill, Oxford.

Received
14 June 2023
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jun
  3. Consult.20 Jul
  4. Target9 Aug
  5. Decided7 Aug

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Youlbury Scout Activity Centre Youlbury Boars Hill Oxford OX1 5HD. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. There have been 5 other applications at this address. We hold 1,980 applications in total for the OX1 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
OX1 5HD
Application type
Minor (Full Application)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 June 2023
Consultation expiry
20 July 2023
Consultation start
16 June 2023
Consultation end
20 July 2023
Target decision date
9 August 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: Vale of White Horse
  • 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 (21)

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, 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.

© 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.

Source: Vale of White Horse

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