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Faringdon Community College Fernham Road Faringdon Oxfordshire SN7 7LB

P25/V2340/FULMajor (Full Application)Approved
Full

Approved on 11 September 2026

Council decision: Planning Permission is Granted13 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of four modular temporary classroom blocks and construction of a single storey student services block and a two storey teaching block with associated soft and hard landscaping elements and parking

Received
29 October 2025
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated21 Nov
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target16 Jan
  5. Decided11 Sep

Decided in 294 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Faringdon Community College Fernham Road Faringdon Oxfordshire SN7 7LB. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 317 days, 37 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,156 applications in total for the SN7 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
SN7 7LB
Application type
Major (Full Application)
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 November 2025
Consultation expiry
5 March 2026
Consultation start
3 December 2025
Consultation end
5 March 2026
Target decision date
16 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
No appeal lodged.

Additional information

Documents
36

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

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    15 Oct

    Discharge of condition 3(construction method statement) on application ref. P25/V2340/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditionsP26/V4769/DIS
  2. 2025
    29 Oct

    Demolition of four modular temporary classroom blocks and construction of a single storey student services…

    This applicationApprovedFullP25/V2340/FUL

Source: Vale of White Horse

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