R56 Building, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX
Approved on 8 April 2026
Council decision: Planning Permission is GrantedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
Proposal
Installation of Dewar Canopy and removal of existing structures
- Received
- 26 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- ReceivedReceived26 Jan
- ValidatedValidated20 Feb
- Consult.Consultation2 Apr
- TargetTarget Date17 Apr
- DecidedDecided8 Apr
Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at R56 Building, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 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.
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
- OX11 0QX
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 2 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 26 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 2 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 17 April 2026
- Application expires
- 17 April 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Appeal
- Appeal status
- No appeal lodged.
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
- 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 (21)
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, 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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