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

P23/V1802/LDECertificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or DevelopmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 5 October 2023

Council decision: Certificate of Lawful Use or Development is GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness to determine whether the construction of part of the car parking spaces approved under P17/V1310/O & P20/V3172/RM for the erection of 14 dwellings with associated access (which in combination form the planning permission) constitutes the lawful commencement of the planning permission

Received
2 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Agent
The Planning Bureau LTD.UK
  1. Received2 Aug
  2. Validated2 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Oct
  5. Decided5 Oct

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 5 Bowes House, Lechlade Road, Faringdon, SN7 8AL. Vale of White Horse has handled 644 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days 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.

87% of amendment 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
Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or Development
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
14

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 August 2023
Consultation start
8 August 2023
Target decision date
6 October 2023
Decision issued
6 October 2023
Application expires
6 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Planning Bureau LTD.UK

Planning decision

Statutory period
65 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

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, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    2 Aug

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

    This applicationApprovedAmendmentP23/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 6 (construction delivery times) on application reference P17/V1310/O

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP23/V0412/DIS
  5. 2023
    15 Feb

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

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP23/V0413/DIS
  6. 2023
    15 Feb

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

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP23/V0416/DIS
  7. 2023
    15 Feb

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

    RefusedDischarge of conditionsP23/V0417/DIS
  8. 2021
    3 Feb

    Discharge of condition 7 (Access) in application P17/V1310/O

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP21/V0356/DIS
  9. 2020
    4 Dec

    Discharge of conditions- 8 (Contamination) & 10 (Closure of Existing Access) on application P17/V1310/O

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsP20/V3193/DIS
  10. 2020
    2 Dec

    Application for approval of appearance, landscaping and scale for the 14 dwellings approved under the outline…

    ApprovedReserved mattersPart ofP20/V3172/RM
  11. 2017
    10 May

    Erection of 14 dwellings with associated access (current permission ref. P13/V2301/O

    ApprovedMajor (Outline)Part ofP17/V1310/O

Source: Vale of White Horse

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