Smith And Son Bletchington Ltd Dewars Quarry Middleton Stoney Road Ardley Bicester OX27 7PH Data via plota.co.uk

26/02162/CM - County Matter No Objections

Proposal

To permit the storage and distribution of Incinerator Bottom Ash Aggregate (IBAA) and other aggregate materials, including, but not limited to, shingles, sand and type 1 (proposed as non-material amendment to planning permission no. MW.) (OCC reference MW.) Data via plota.co.uk

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

Application progress

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Received

10 Aug 2026

Decision

Target date was 7 Sept 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 28 Oct 2026; it is now day 79.

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Officer Report Document · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Decision Document · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 5

National infrastructure project: Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange

The site is inside 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 ↗

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: 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

SSSI about 259 m away: Ardley Cutting and Quarry SSSI; Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · 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: County Matter
Postcode: OX27 7PH
Received: 10 Aug 2026
Validated: 10 Aug 2026
Ward: Fringford And Heyfords
Parish: Middleton Stoney
Target decision: 7 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated

Decision outlook

Day 79, past the statutory target. 77% of commercial and major works in Cherwell are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 9 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 24 Sept 2026.

target

predicted

Day 7923 days past the 56-day target

50%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

16%go to committee

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Cherwell in the last twelve months, from validation. Cherwell decision record →

Historical activity at this location

37 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

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