Land to the north of Oxford Road, Oxford, OX4 2RL Data via plota.co.uk

P26/S3761/DIS - Discharge Conditions Consultation Period
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Discharge of conditions 5 (surface water drainage works) and 7 (flood mitigation (prior to first burial)) on application ref. Change of use of agricultural land to a 7.34 hectare low impact, landscape-led meadow burial space, with a naturalistic character. One new vehicle access to the site to be constructed and a new footpath link to be provided from the existing council owned car park (in front of the athletics track) to the burial ground. A small, open-sided shelter, a number of benches, signs and hard access ways to be created. Headstones to be limited to 80cm in height and made from non-glossy stone or hardwood. Access to the site to be provided for hearse vehicles, maintenance vehicles and onsite priority parking spaces. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
26 Aug 2026
Decision
Target date was 21 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 21 Oct 2026.

The consultation period closed on 17 Sept 2026.

Documents 1

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application - Application Form · 26 Aug 2026 View ↗

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Associated applications 3

Site constraints 5

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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Public footpath about 4 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not 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.
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, 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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31 Jul 2026Approved

Land to the north of Oxford Road, Oxford, OX4 2RL

Discharge of condition 3(Construction Traffic Management) on application ref. P2...

P26/S3311/DIS

Important details

Council
South Oxfordshire
Application type
Discharge Conditions
Postcode
OX4 2RL
Received
26 Aug 2026
Validated
26 Aug 2026
Case officer
Show
Target decision
21 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
The Environment Partnership

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 28 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
27 Aug 2026
Comments by
17 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry
21 Oct 2026

Historical activity at this location

2 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2023 Approved
Land to the north of Oxford Road, near Horspath, OX4 2RL
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P23/S3730/FUL
2023 Approved
Land to the north of Oxford Road near Horspath OX4 2RL
Change of use of agricultural land to a 7.34 hectare low impact, landscape-led meadow bur…
P23/S3730/FUL
South Oxfordshire
Planning Authority Score
7.6/10
Good
#39 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings