Land at the former Didcot Power Station Didcot Oxon OX11 7HA
Approved on 17 December 2025
Council decision: Reserved Matters - Approval
Proposal
Reserved Matters Approval Application pursuant to Outline Planning Permission reference P22/V1857/O for the construction of a substation to include transformers and other equipment, a control building and associated site access, landscaping, boundary security fencing and lighting.
- Received
- 23 September 2025
- ReceivedReceived23 Sep
- ValidatedValidated23 Sep
- Consult.Consultation29 Oct
- TargetTarget Date23 Dec
- DecidedDecided17 Dec
Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land at the former Didcot Power Station Didcot Oxon OX11 7HA. Vale of White Horse has handled 778 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,447 applications in total for the OX11 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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Application details
- Postcode
- OX11 7HA
- Application type
- Major (Reserved Matters)
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 29 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 2 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 29 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 23 December 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Appeal
- Appeal status
- No appeal lodged.
Additional information
- Documents
- 21
Site constraints
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.
Source: Vale of White Horse
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