Wheatley Road, Cuddesdon, Oxford, OX44 9EX Data via plota.co.uk

P26/S1544/LB - Listed Building Consent Approved

Proposal

Refurbishment to communal bathrooms and WCs to ground, first and second floors, including changes to all bathroom sanitaryware of the Rashdall Building. Removing all baths to replace with showers, installation of an additional toilet to ground and first floor and making one of the ground floor shower rooms and one of the WC more accessible. Changes to the layout of the second floor bathroom space, which would include replacement and repositioning of walls and additional facilities. Upgrades to heating system and controls where necessary. Electrical rewiring where necessary. Redecoration to rooms and entrance including windows, doors, walls and ceilings. Installation of extractor fans to windows panes at ground and first floor. Additional roof vented extractions fans to second floor. Changes to drainage to suit the system, with additional penetrations through the wall at ground and first floor level to connect toilets to existing downpipe. Removal of lead floor apron around toilets on first and second floor. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
7 May 2026
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Approved
9 Jul 2026

Approved on 9 Jul 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 6 Sept 2026

Site constraints 6

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4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Ripon College, Grade II*, about 29 m from the postcode pin · 2 Grade II*, 2 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Green belt: Oxford
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
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Recorded by the council for this site.
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Also on the record
Priority habitat about 25 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Application type
Listed Building Consent
Postcode
OX44 9EX
Received
7 May 2026
Validated
7 May 2026
Case officer
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Target decision
23 Jul 2026
Decision
Listed Building Consent is Granted
Decision date
9 Jul 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Cluttons LLP

How this decision compares

Decided in 63 days from validation, 8 days slower than South Oxfordshire's median of 55 for extensions. Approved, as 97% of extensions here are.

63%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
648decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by South Oxfordshire in the last twelve months, from validation. South Oxfordshire decision record →

Public comments

1comment received
1 neutral

Last counted 6 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
2 Jul 2026
Comments by
6 Jul 2026
Site or press notice
4 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry
23 Jul 2026
South Oxfordshire
Planning Authority Score
7.6/10
Good
#39 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

South Oxfordshire is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #89 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
98% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
South Oxfordshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
94%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #47 of 296
98%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #23 of 296
74%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #89 of 296
35%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #105 of 296
83%
Minor dwellings approved
163 decided (1-9 homes)
56%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
92%
Change of use approved
26 decided
1,529
Total decisions
96 refused in the year to March 2026