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Abingdon & Witney College Holloway Road Witney

14/0189/P/FPFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 18 March 2014

Council decision: Grant, subject to conditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of former court building, blake and weavers buildings, erection of two new teaching buildings, extension and refurbishment of the holloway building and associated works.

Received
11 February 2014
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Witney South
Agent
Robothams Architects
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.13 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Mar

Decided in 35 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Abingdon & Witney College Holloway Road Witney. West Oxfordshire has handled 5,216 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 2 weeks quicker than West Oxfordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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
11 February 2014
Last date for comments
13 March 2014
Committee meeting
17 March 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent
Robothams Architects
Agent address
The Old Library 12 Church Street Warwick CV34 4AB

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03165867
Documents
46

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Witney And Cogges Conservation AreaPart of the site

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

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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