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Birch Cottage Orchard Lane Boars Hill Oxford OX1 5JH

P23/V2595/HHOther (Householder)Withdrawn
Householder

Withdrawn on 30 April 2024

Council decision: Withdrawn prior to determination

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed annexe with use ancillary to the existing dwelling to be used primarily as office space. (Amended site and block plan received 12 February 2024- correcting the red line)

Received
20 November 2023
  1. Received20 Nov
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target10 May
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 151 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Birch Cottage Orchard Lane Boars Hill Oxford OX1 5JH. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 162 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 5JH
Application type
Other (Householder)
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 December 2023
Consultation expiry
5 March 2024
Consultation start
9 January 2024
Consultation end
5 March 2024
Target decision date
10 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
161 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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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.

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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