Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford Oxfordshire OX5 2PU Data via plota.co.uk

26/02082/LB - Listed Building Withdrawn

Proposal

Change of road surface from the existing concrete to tar and chip and the change of the visitor car park from crushed concrete to gravel Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
10 Aug 2026
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Withdrawn
22 Sept 2026

Withdrawn on 22 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 25 Sept 2026

Documents 7

Plans & drawings 3

PDF Plans - Site Document · 10 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Site Document · 10 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Site Document · 10 Aug 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Consultation Response Document · 14 Sept 2026 View ↗

Other documents 3

PDF Application Documents Document · 10 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Supporting Documents Document · 10 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Supporting Documents Document · 10 Aug 2026 View ↗

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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.
Read the government guidance ↗
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.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
Also on the record
2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; National infrastructure project about 98 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 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 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
Listed Building
Postcode
OX5 2PU
Received
10 Aug 2026
Validated
10 Aug 2026
Ward
Kidlington East
Parish
Gosford And Water Eaton
Target decision
5 Oct 2026
Decision
Application Withdrawn
Decision date
22 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
1 Oct 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2023 Approved
Northfield Farmhouse Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Erection of localised steel frame supports to stabilise Stone Barn structure and incorpor…
23/02200/F
2023 Approved
Northfield Farmhouse Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Erection of localised steel frame supports to stabilise Stone Barn structure and incorpor…
23/02201/LB
2023 Approved
Northfield Farmhouse Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Erection of localised steel frame supports to stabilise Stone Barn structure and incorpor…
23/02200/F
2023 Approved
Northfield Farmhouse Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Erection of localised steel frame supports to stabilise Stone Barn structure and incorpor…
23/02201/LB
2022 Approved
Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Change of Use of 1no barn from agricultural use to a flexible commercial use comprising w…
22/03837/R56
2022 Approved
Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Change of Use of 1no barn from agricultural use to a flexible commercial use comprising w…
22/03837/R56
2021 Approved
Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford OX5 2PU
RETROSPECTIVE - Installation of a ground source heat pump and collector array.
21/01162/F
2021 Approved
Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford OX5 2PU
RETROSPECTIVE - Installation of a ground source heat pump and collector array.
21/01162/F
2020 Refused
Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Certificate of Lawful of Proposed Development for installation of a ground source heat pu…
20/03538/CLUP
2020 Approved
Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Installation of a ground source heat pump and collector array to provide a renewable heat…
20/03528/LB
2020 Refused
Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Certificate of Lawful of Proposed Development for installation of a ground source heat pu…
20/03538/CLUP
2020 Approved
Northfield Farm Water Eaton Lane Gosford Kidlington OX5 2PU
Installation of a ground source heat pump and collector array to provide a renewable heat…
20/03528/LB
Cherwell
Planning Authority Score
3.6/10
Below average
#214 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other 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
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings