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26/00469/AGN - Agricultural Notification Approved

Proposal

Prior approval application for two new agricultural buildings with associated hard standing and machinery track Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 19 Sept 2026, 16:19

Application progress

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Received

20 Feb 2026

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Approved

20 Mar 2026

Approved on 20 Mar 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 19 Sept 2026

Documents 13

Site constraints 6

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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 Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; SSSI about 443 m away: Wendlebury Meads and Mansmoor Closes SSSI; National infrastructure project about 749 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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

Council: Cherwell
Application type: Agricultural Notification
Received: 20 Feb 2026
Validated: 20 Feb 2026
Ward: Launton And Otmoor
Parish: Charlton On Otmoor
Target decision: 20 Mar 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Not Required
Decision date: 20 Mar 2026
Decision level: Delegated

How this decision compares

Decided in 28 days from validation, about the council's usual 28 days. Approved, as 82% of agricultural works here are.

This one28d

Council28d

UK46d

91%decided within 8 weeks

82%approved

35decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Cherwell in the last twelve months, from validation. Cherwell decision record →

Cherwell

Planning Authority Score

3.6/10

Below average

#214 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Cherwell is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #247 out of 296. 49% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Cherwell decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

92%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #77 of 296

94%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #101 of 296

47%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #247 of 296

49%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #218 of 296

77%

Minor dwellings approved

117 decided (1-9 homes)

95%

Major dwellings approved

19 decided (10+ homes)

96%

Change of use approved

47 decided

1,091

Total decisions

90 refused in the year to March 2026

OS Parcel 0904 North East Of Mansmoor Road Charlton On Otmoor Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 13

Decision & officer reports 2

Plans & drawings 8

Consultation & comments 1

Other documents 2

Site constraints 6

Important details

How this decision compares