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Willow Pond Farm, Appleton Road, Longworth, Oxfordshire, OX13 5EF

P25/V1910/LDECertificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or DevelopmentRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 10 June 2026

Council decision: Refusal of Certificate of Lawful Use or DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Wood cladded storage container currently used as a welfare unit, 27 m2 situated east to west along fenceline with road. power supplied by generator. used for daily welfare, washing hands, changing wet or muddy clothes, shelter from rain. Portacabin 27m2 situated east to west along fenceline with road, powered by solar panels, used for animal welfare, hatching and raising young stock Stables situated North to South as shown on plans approx 128 m2 All these buildings are located within the RED lines, They have all been on site for over 10 years hence my application for Lawful Development Certificate. Within this area, but further to the East, I also keep chickens, Ducks on the pond, Geese, and Turkeys The RED line covers approx 1 acre of my land The remainder of my land, approx 4 acres has been used for grazing of animals over the past 15 years+ by myself, for the keeping of rescue donkeys, horses and geese,and therefore I believe is immune from enforcement by planning too, and applies for a certificate of lawfullness too.

Received
3 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received3 Sep
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided10 Jun

Decided in 138 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Willow Pond Farm, Appleton Road, Longworth, Oxfordshire, OX13 5EF. Vale of White Horse has handled 644 applications of this type. This one was decided in 280 days, 32 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.

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
OX13 5EF
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or Development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2026
Consultation expiry
27 February 2026
Consultation start
6 February 2026
Consultation end
27 February 2026
Target decision date
20 March 2026
Application expires
20 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mrs Lucie Cook

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
10

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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