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Land at former Didcot A Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA

P25/V2199/S73Major (Section 73)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 11 February 2026

Council decision: Planning Permission28 conditions

Proposal

Variation of conditions 1 (Approved Plans) and 7 (Implementation of Foul and Surface Water Drainage) on application P22/V1857/O and partial discharge of conditions 18 (Landscape Management Plan), 21 (Landscape and Ecology Management Plan), 22 (Biodiversity Construction Environment Management Plan) and 24 (Tree Protection) on application P22/V1857/O. (Hybrid application comprising: 1. Outline planning permission for the erection of up to 197,000m2 Use Class B8 data centre development with ancillary Use Class E office space, together with associated groundworks, utilities, infrastructure, engineering and enabling works. Matters relating to appearance, landscaping, drainage, layout and scale of the development areas reserved for subsequent approval; and 2. Full planning permission for the construction of new and improved site access, new access roads, hard & soft landscaping, creation of SUDS and all associated infrastructure and engineering works.)

Received
14 October 2025
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.19 Nov
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided11 Feb

Decided in 120 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land at former Didcot A Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA. Vale of White Horse has handled 644 applications of this type. This one was decided in 120 days, 9 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,447 applications in total for the OX11 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
OX11 7HA
Application type
Major (Section 73)
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2025
Consultation expiry
19 November 2025
Consultation start
22 October 2025
Consultation end
19 November 2025
Target decision date
13 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
122 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
41

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    14 Oct

    Reserved Matters application for the approval of details relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and…

    ApprovedReserved mattersRelatedP25/V2197/RM
  2. 2025
    14 Oct

    Variation of conditions 1 (Approved Plans) and 7 (Implementation of Foul and Surface Water Drainage) on…

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)P25/V2199/S73

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