Planning application
Friends Meeting House Horse Fair Banbury OX16 0AH
Works: Trees
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
T1 Ash - Fell heavy leaning tree. Poor form.
As published by the council, reference 25/03145/TCA
Application record
- Reference
- 25/03145/TCA
- Type
- Works To Trees In Conservation Area
- Status
- Application Permitted
- Decision
- Granted As published: Permitted
- Received
- 1 Dec 2025
- Validated
- 1 Dec 2025
- Decided
- 16 Jan 2026
- Ward
- Banbury Cross And Neithrop
- Parish
- Banbury
- Postcode
- OX16 0AH
Site history
Applications at this address on the Cherwell register
This site has had 5 applications since 2022: 4 approved, 1 refused.
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26/01314/F Granted
Friends Meeting House Horse Fair Banbury OX16 0AH
Repair or replace broken stone at the bottom of the wall by the entrance, re-pointing some of the outside of back north wall of the meeting room in lime mortar and some of the brick slope at ground level, re-pointing the old wall in the centre of the garden with lime mortar. Replace boiler room and kitchen doors with fire doors, cover gap above boiler room door. Re-point both sides of crack in boundary wall of garden by west side corner including heli bars if necessary. Repair re-pointing work if necessary if any mortar is dislodged during installation of 9 new windows. Re-point where necessary the outside of the front door surround join with the masonry
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26/01313/LB Granted
Friends Meeting House Horse Fair Banbury OX16 0AH
Repair or replace broken stone at the bottom of the wall by the entrance, re-pointing some of the outside of back north wall of the meeting room in lime mortar and some of the brick slope at ground level, re-pointing the old wall in the centre of the garden with lime mortar. Replace boiler room and kitchen doors with fire doors, cover gap above boiler room door. Re-point both sides of crack in boundary wall of garden by west side corner including heli bars if necessary. Repair re-pointing work if necessary if any mortar is disloged during installation of 9 new windows. Re-point where necessary the outside of the front door surround join with the masonry
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25/03309/F Granted
Friends Meeting House Horse Fair Banbury OX16 0AH
Replacement of 6no south facing sash windows on the Large Meeting Room and replacement of 3no south facing windows on the Small Meeting Room
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22/03792/LB Refused
Friends Meeting House Horse Fair Banbury OX16 0AH
Alterations to external access to provide a ramped wheelchair accessible route from the site boundary to the entrance door
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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1 Dec 2025
Received by Cherwell
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16 Jan 2026
Decision issued: Permitted
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11 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
7 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat this grant of permission means
Cherwell granted permission on 16 January 2026, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
About tree works applications
Applications for works to trees cover protected trees: consent under a tree preservation order, or six weeks notice for trees in a conservation area. More in our guide to planning application types.
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