Unit 14 Expeditionary Road Ambrosden OX25 2EJ Data via plota.co.uk

25/02215/CDC - Full Development Approved at committee

Approved at planning committee on 4 June 2026. The council has not issued its decision notice yet.

Proposal

Change of Use from Class B8 to mixed uses including operational waste depot (sui generis), storage and distribution (B8), MOT station and HGV workshop (B2), and supporting office space and welfare facilities (Ancillary E). Demolition of single storey elements of building and alterations to openings, provision of hardstanding and internal access roads and gate, plant space, signage, solar PV on roof and associated hard and soft landscaping works Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 26 Oct 2026, 23:39

Application progress

✓

Received

27 Aug 2025

✓

Validated

17 Sept 2025

✓

Committee

4 Jun 2026

✗

Appeal dismissed

9 Jul 2026

Decision notice

Not issued yet

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 28 Oct 2026; it is now day 406.

The consultation period closed on 6 Nov 2025.

Planning committee

Decided by Cherwell Planning Committee on 4 Jun 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Officers advised permission because the proposal would reuse a brownfield building, support waste services and avoid identified environmental and amenity harm.
Residents’ representatives raised points about waste storage, the development description and securing biodiversity net gain.
The committee resolved to grant permission under delegated authority, subject to conditions and a Section 106 obligation.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site, planning history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, conditions and committee decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Cherwell's committee minutes of 4 Jun 2026.

Documents 63

Plans & drawings 18

Consultation & comments 16

Site constraints 3

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.

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 889 m away: East West Rail - Bedford to Cambridge and Western improvements, at pre-application; Priority habitat about 47 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

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

Checked on 12 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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £3,100,000 in October 2023. Other property, freehold.

10 October 2023£3,100,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Cherwell
Application type: Full Development
Postcode: OX25 2EJ
Received: 27 Aug 2025
Validated: 17 Sept 2025
Ward: Bicester South And Ambrosden
Parish: Bicester
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 31 Aug 2026
Decision level: Committee
Appeal: Dismissed · 9 Jul 2026 · Written Representations · Inspectorate case 6009158 ↗
Applicant: Show
Agent: Stantec
Freehold owner: Show

Decision outlook

Day 406, past the statutory target. 76% of full applications 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 26 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 406350 days past the 56-day target

44%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

681decided in the last year

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

Public comments

1comment received

Last counted 26 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 6 Nov 2025
Committee: 4 Jun 2026

Cherwell

Planning Authority Score

3.6/10

Below average

#214 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

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