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25/03343/OUT - Outline Application Under Consultation

Proposal

Outline planning application for up to 475 dwellings (including an element of extra care dwellings, Use Class C2), vehicular accesses from Camp Road, pedestrian and cycle access routes, public open space, equipped children’s play areas, surface water drainage, foul water pumping station, electrical sub-stations, landscaping, biodiversity net gain habitat, associated ground works and land for community use - All Matters Reserved except for Access Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 25 Oct 2026, 16:26

Application progress

✓

Received

23 Dec 2025

✓

Validated

3 Feb 2026

Decision

Expected by 29 Jan 2027

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 268.

The consultation period closed on 5 Mar 2026.

Documents 451

Plans & drawings 5

PDF Plans - Site Document · 7 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Plans - Site Document · 23 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Plans – Details Document · 23 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Plans – Details Document · 23 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Plans – Details Document · 23 Dec 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 339

Site constraints 6

RAF Upper Heyford conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

Heritage at risk: RAF Upper Heyford, Upper Heyford, Ardley

On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.

A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.

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. A site survey can differ.

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

Scheduled monument about 193 m away: Cold War structures at the former Upper Heyford Airbase; Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 1827 m away: Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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: Outline Application
Received: 23 Dec 2025
Validated: 3 Feb 2026
Ward: Fringford And Heyfords
Parish: Lower Heyford
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 29 Jan 2027
Decision level: Committee
Applicant: Show
Agent: Savills

Decision outlook

Day 268, past the statutory target. 63% of new homes 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 25 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 268177 days past the 91-day target

33%decided within 8 weeks

67%approved

62decided in the last year

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

Public comments

285comments received

Last counted 25 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 5 Mar 2026

Cherwell

Planning Authority Score

3.6/10

Below average

#214 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

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