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25/03105/CLUE - Certificate of Lawful Use Existing Under Consultation

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use and Development: To confirm Use of land and engineering operations as a commercial builders yard and storage, including erection of outbuildings and storage of various materials and equipment in association with submitted Use Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 22 Oct 2026, 00:24

Application progress

✓

Received

28 Nov 2025

Decision

Target date was 23 Jan 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 335.

The consultation period closed on 1 Jan 2026.

Documents 16

Plans & drawings 2

PDF Plans - Site Document · 5 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Site Document · 28 Nov 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 3

PDF Consultation Response Document · 16 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Public Comments Document · 21 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Consultation Response Document · 18 Dec 2025 View ↗

Site constraints 7

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 3. 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.

National infrastructure project about 271 m away: Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange

The site is about 271 m from the project boundary. Rail freight interchange, under examination.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Registered park or garden about 38 m away: Middleton Park

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Radon affected area, class 3; Scheduled monument about 214 m away: Middleton Stoney Castle.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 8 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: Certificate of Lawful Use Existing
Received: 28 Nov 2025
Validated: 28 Nov 2025
Ward: Fringford And Heyfords
Parish: Middleton Stoney
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 23 Jan 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Alex Cresswell Planning Consultancy Ltd

Decision outlook

Day 335, past the statutory target. 95% of lawful development certificates in Cherwell are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 21 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 335279 days past the 56-day target

76%decided within 8 weeks

85%approved

118decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided by Cherwell in the last twelve months, from validation. Cherwell decision record →

Public comments

1comment received

Last counted 21 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 1 Jan 2026

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