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Harwell ILW Box Store Rutherford Avenue Harwell Didcot OX11 0DF

P23/V1465/CMOther (County Matters)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 June 2023

Council decision: County Matter - Recommended Approval

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

Proposal

Non-material amendment to permission MW.0041/17 (P17/V1307/CM) (application for planning permission comprising a waste storage facility for intermediate level radioactive waste and associated infrastructure including surface water management system, hard standings, internal roads, landscaping, fencing and lighting) to amend the approved elevation plans to add an external fire escape and fire escape door, omit external plant cell, relocate two rainwater downpipes and provide two additional downpipes at Rutherford Avenue, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Harwell, OX11 0DF Consultation end date: 5 July 2023

Received
21 June 2023
  1. Received21 Jun
  2. Validated21 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Jul
  5. Decided29 Jun

Decided in 8 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Harwell ILW Box Store Rutherford Avenue Harwell Didcot OX11 0DF. Vale of White Horse has handled 165 applications of this type. This one was decided in 8 days, 7 weeks quicker than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,447 applications in total for the OX11 postcode area.

93% of all 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
OX11 0DF
Application type
Other (County Matters)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 June 2023
Target decision date
12 July 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 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.

  • National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
  • 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, 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, 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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