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2 Witney Lane Leafield Witney Oxfordshire OX29 9PG

26/00174/HHDHouseholder ApplicationRefused
Householder

Refused on 14 April 2026

Council decision: Refuse1 reason for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Creation of vehicle access to facilitate an off street parking space to the front of the property, removal of part of drystone wall, and associated works.(Part Retrospective).

Received
26 January 2026
Ward
Hailey, Minster Lovell and Leafield
  1. Received26 Jan
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.12 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided14 Apr

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 2 Witney Lane Leafield Witney Oxfordshire OX29 9PG. 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 Leafield conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across Hailey, Minster Lovell and Leafield. We hold 2,026 applications in total for the OX29 postcode area.

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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Why it was refused

  1. By reason of the removal of a section of historic drystone boundary wall and the introduction of a vehicular access and hardstanding to the front of the dwelling, the proposal would result in the loss of historic boundary treatments and introducing a more suburban feature in the form of a hardstanding access that would result in less than substantial harm to the character and appearance of the Leafield Conservation Area, the setting of nearby listed buildings, and the setting of a non-designated heritage asset. The Local Planning Authority considers that the public benefits of the proposal, including the provision of a single off street parking space, are limited in scale and largely private in nature and do not outweigh the identified heritage harm. The proposal is therefore contrary to Section 16 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2024, Policies EH9, EH10, EH11, EH13 and EH16 of the West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2031, the West Oxfordshire Design Guide and the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
OX29 9PG
Application type
Householder Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Leafield

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2026
Consultation end
12 March 2026
Last date for comments
19 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14648976
Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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, 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: West Oxfordshire

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