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Oak Tree Cottage, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, OX13 5PX

P25/V1054/HHHouseholder ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 4 July 2025

Council decision: Planning Permission is GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Garage conversion and single storey rear extension to garage to form annexe to original main dwelling.

Received
12 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.26 Jun
  4. Target11 Jul
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at Oak Tree Cottage, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, OX13 5PX. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,707 applications in total for the OX13 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
OX13 5PX
Application type
Householder Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2025
Consultation expiry
26 June 2025
Consultation start
21 May 2025
Consultation end
26 June 2025
Target decision date
11 July 2025
Application expires
11 July 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Listed building: Grade II: Holly Tree CottageOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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