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39 Market Square Witney

12/1760/P/FPFull ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 23 January 2013

Council decision: RefusePlanning committee

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Proposal

Conversion of office building to four flats.

Received
30 November 2012
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Witney South
Agent
G. Soame Planning & Development Ltd
  1. Received30 Nov
  2. Validated30 Nov
  3. Consult.3 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 39 Market Square Witney. West Oxfordshire has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than West Oxfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Witney and Cogges conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Witney South.

95% of full applications at West Oxfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Witney

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 November 2012
Last date for comments
3 January 2013
Committee meeting
21 January 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent
G. Soame Planning & Development Ltd
Agent address
Acre Cottage Chapel Road South Leigh Oxon OX29 6UP

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Witney And Cogges Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1, Church GreenOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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.

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Source: West Oxfordshire

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