This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Application to build in a field west of Bloxham Road recommended for rejection
06/09/2023
The applicant say it wouldn’t “extend the urban envelope of Banbury”, but the planning officer disagrees
A plan to build in a field which would extend the built-up boundary of Banbury further along the Bloxham Road looks set to be refused. An officer’s report to Councillors on the Planning Committee recommends they reject the outline planning application.
Barwood Development Securities Ltd and Mark Horgan are proposing a development of up to 60 homes on 3.12 hectares of land to the west of the Bloxham Road and immediately to the south of an access road to Crouch Hill Farm. The Redrow development lies just to the north with access to the proposed site via Tyrrell Road.
The applicant says the development would “deliver a scheme which is sensible and compatible with the Site’s setting and context. It would not extend the urban envelope of Banbury further south than that already consented, and it would provide a wholly appropriate setting to the south of the town.”
But the officer disagrees. She wrote: “The site is not an allocated housing site within the Cherwell Local Plan 2015 and is located beyond the built-up limits of Banbury within open countryside.” In her reasons for rejection she added: “the proposal is considered to result in unacceptable, poorly related and isolated development that could not successfully be fully integrated with existing development”.
Councillors will discuss the application when they meet tomorrow afternoon at Bodicote House.
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam