Forest Lodge Farm Kirtlington Road Chesterton Oxfordshire OX25 4AJ Data via plota.co.uk

26/02688/F - Full Development Under Consultation

Proposal

Erection of 8 No. extensions to existing livestock buildings and installation of roof mounted ventilation fans on the existing livestock buildings Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 01:18

Application progress

✓

Received

13 Oct 2026

✓

Validated

16 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 15 Jan 2027

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 13 Nov 2026 and 8 Dec 2026, from Cherwell's recent agricultural works.

Documents 16

Plans & drawings 7

PDF Plans - Site Document · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Site Document · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Site Document · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Existing Document · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Existing Document · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Proposed Document · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Proposed Document · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 5

Registered park or garden: Middleton Park

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

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

Historic England ↗

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.

Habitat network: Wood pasture and parkland

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

National infrastructure project about 767 m away: Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange

The site is about 767 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 ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 21 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: Full Development
Postcode: OX25 4AJ
Received: 13 Oct 2026
Validated: 16 Oct 2026
Ward: Fringford And Heyfords
Parish: Chesterton
Target decision: 15 Jan 2027
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
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Decision outlook

Day 12 of the 56-day target. Cherwell usually decides agricultural works by day 28.

prediction

Day 1244 days to the 56-day target

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 →

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2016 Approved

Forest Lodge Farm Kirtlington Road Chesterton Bicester OX25 4AJ

Partial discharge of condition 2 of 16/00008/F

16/00515/DISC 19 Dec 2016

2016 Approved

Forest Lodge Farm Kirtlington Road Chesterton Bicester OX25 4AJ

The construction of a renewable energy biomass boiler and fuel store, including installat…

16/00008/F 7 Apr 2016

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