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Land at former Didcot A Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA

Granted Vale of White Horse P25/V2769/DIS Other (Discharge Conditions)

Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.

Proposal

Discharge of condition 19(Biodiversity Net Gain Assessment) on application ref. P22/V1857/O Hybrid application comprising: 1. Outline planning permission for the erection of up to 197,000m2 Use Class B8 data centre development with ancillary Use Class E office space, together with associated groundworks, utilities, infrastructure, engineering and enabling works. Matters relating to appearance, landscaping, drainage, layout and scale of the development areas reserved for subsequent approval; and 2. Full planning permission for the construction of new and improved site access, new access roads, hard & soft landscaping, creation of SUDS and all associated infrastructure and engineering works.

As published by the council, reference P25/V2769/DIS

Application record

Reference
P25/V2769/DIS
Type
Other (Discharge Conditions)
Status
Permitted
Decision
Granted As published: Fully Discharged
Received
18 Dec 2025
Validated
18 Dec 2025
Decided
11 Feb 2026
Postcode
OX11 7HA

Site history

Applications at this address on the Vale of White Horse register

This site has had 5 applications since 2025: 5 approved, 0 refused.

  • P26/V1152/DIS Granted

    Land at former Didcot A Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA

    Discharge of condition(s) 9 (Contamination details) on application ref. P22/V1857/O. (Hybrid application comprising: 1. Outline planning permission for the erection of up to 197,000m2 Use Class B8 data centre development with ancillary Use Class E office space, together with associated groundworks, utilities, infrastructure, engineering and enabling works. Matters relating to appearance, landscaping, drainage, layout and scale of the development areas reserved for subsequent approval; and 2. Full planning permission for the construction of new and improved site access, new access roads, hard & soft landscaping, creation of SUDS and all associated infrastructure and engineering works.)

    Decided 25 Jun 2026 Conditions
  • P25/V2364/DIS Granted

    Land at former Didcot A Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA

    Discharge of condition 16 (Approval of External Materials and Lighting for roads and footpaths) on application ref. P22/V1857/O. (Hybrid application comprising: 1. Outline planning permission for the erection of up to 197,000m2 Use Class B8 data centre development with ancillary Use Class E office space, together with associated groundworks, utilities, infrastructure, engineering and enabling works. Matters relating to appearance, landscaping, drainage, layout and scale of the development areas reserved for subsequent approval; and 2. Full planning permission for the construction of new and improved site access, new access roads, hard & soft landscaping, creation of SUDS and all associated infrastructure and engineering works.)

    Decided 19 Dec 2025 Conditions
  • P25/V2197/RM Granted

    Land at former Didcot A Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA

    Reserved Matters application for the approval of details relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for a data centre campus, to include 4 no. data centre buildings, gate house and other ancillary buildings and plant, associated site access roads, boundary security fencing, CCTV and landscaping pursuant to outline planning permission P25/V2199/S73Â (Variation of conditions 1 (Approved Plans) and 7 (Implementation of Foul and Surface Water Drainage) on application P22/V1857/O and partial discharge of conditions 18 (Landscape Management Plan), 21 (Landscape and Ecology Management Plan), 22 (Biodiversity Construction Environment Management Plan) and 24 (Tree Protection) on application P22/V1857/O and discharge of outline conditions 5, 16, 18, 21 and 26 in relation to RMA2 phase only.

    Decided 17 Feb 2026 Reserved matters
  • P25/V2199/S73 Granted

    Land at former Didcot A Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA

    Variation of conditions 1 (Approved Plans) and 7 (Implementation of Foul and Surface Water Drainage) on application P22/V1857/O and partial discharge of conditions 18 (Landscape Management Plan), 21 (Landscape and Ecology Management Plan), 22 (Biodiversity Construction Environment Management Plan) and 24 (Tree Protection) on application P22/V1857/O. (Hybrid application comprising: 1. Outline planning permission for the erection of up to 197,000m2 Use Class B8 data centre development with ancillary Use Class E office space, together with associated groundworks, utilities, infrastructure, engineering and enabling works. Matters relating to appearance, landscaping, drainage, layout and scale of the development areas reserved for subsequent approval; and 2. Full planning permission for the construction of new and improved site access, new access roads, hard & soft landscaping, creation of SUDS and all associated infrastructure and engineering works.)

    Decided 11 Feb 2026 Amendments

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 18 Dec 2025

    Received by Vale of White Horse

  2. 11 Feb 2026

    Decision issued: Fully Discharged

  3. 9 Aug 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

4 documents on file for this application

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What this grant of permission means

Vale of White Horse granted permission on 11 February 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 condition discharge and variation applications

This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.

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  • Land at former Didcot A Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA

    P25/V2364/DIS Submitted 3 Nov 2025 50 yards away

    Discharge of condition 16 (Approval of External Materials and Lighting for roads and footpaths) on application ref. P22/V1857/O. (Hybrid application comprising: 1. Outline planning permission for the erection of up to 197,000m2 Use Class B8 data centre development with ancillary Use Class E office space, together with associated groundworks, utilities, infrastructure, engineering and enabling works. Matters relating to appearance, landscaping, drainage, layout and scale of the development areas reserved for subsequent approval; and 2. Full planning permission for the construction of new and improved site access, new access roads, hard & soft landscaping, creation of SUDS and all associated infrastructure and engineering works.)

    Granted Conditions 7 docs
  • Didcot Power Station, Rwe N Power Plc Didcot Power Station Didcot OX11 7HA

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    Discharge of condition 9 (Remediation of Ground Conditions) for application ref. P22/V1857/O Hybrid application comprising: 1. Outline planning permission for the erection of up to 197,000m2 Use Class B8 data centre development with ancillary Use Class E office space, together with associated groundworks, utilities, infrastructure, engineering and enabling works. Matters relating to appearance, landscaping, drainage, layout and scale of the development areas reserved for subsequent approval; and 2. Full planning permission for the construction of new and improved site access, new access roads, hard & soft landscaping, creation of SUDS and all associated infrastructure and engineering works.

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    Granted Conditions Trees 4 docs

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