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Land at Springhill Farm Southmoor OX13 5HL

P25/V1865/OMinor (Outline)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 26 November 2025

Council decision: Refusal of Planning Permission4 reasons for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Two self-build dwellings and new access

Received
29 August 2025
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated3 Sep
  3. Consult.29 Oct
  4. Target29 Oct
  5. Decided26 Nov

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land at Springhill Farm Southmoor OX13 5HL. Vale of White Horse has handled 778 applications of this type. This one was decided in 89 days, 5 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,707 applications in total for the OX13 postcode area.

88% of outline 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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Why it was refused

  1. The application site is located within open countryside, outside the built area of the village of Southmoor and the site is not allocated by the Local Plan nor by a Neighbourhood Plan. Therefore, the proposal is contrary to Policies CP3 & CP4 of the adopted Local Plan.
  2. The proposed development would cause a harmful urbanisation of the village edge and an erosion to the setting of the village to the detriment of the character and appearance of the area contrary to policies CP37 and CP44 of the adopted Local Plan and paragraph 135(c) of the National Planning Policy Framework.
  3. Insufficient information has been provided to demonstrate that the development would not be at risk from groundwater flooding, contrary to policy CP42 of the adopted Local Plan and paragraphs 170 and 175 of the National Planning Policy Framework.
  4. Insufficient information has been provided to demonstrate that the loss of the hedgerow, a priority habitat, accords with the mitigation hierarchy of policy P25/V1865/O CP46 and paragraph 193 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
OX13 5HL
Application type
Minor (Outline)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 September 2025
Consultation expiry
29 October 2025
Consultation start
30 September 2025
Consultation end
29 October 2025
Target decision date
29 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Appeal history

6003709
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 22 April 2026Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Source: Vale of White Horse

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