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Land south of Road 4 and west of Road 6, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX

P26/V0795/FULMajor DevelopmentApproved

Approved on 15 October 2026

Council decision: Planning Permission is Granted20 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Erection of a Class E building with associated infrastructure.

Received
8 April 2026
  1. Received8 Apr
  2. Validated8 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Oct

Decided in 190 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Land south of Road 4 and west of Road 6, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX. Vale of White Horse has handled 26 applications of this type. This one was decided in 190 days, 19 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.

93% of all 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
Major Development

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Sally Wright

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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