From: Julie Shea
Sent: 30 January 2009 08:36
To: DC Secretaries
Subject: FW: PublicAccess for Planning - Application Comments
(08/02587/F)

 

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From: publicaccess@cherwell-dc.gov.uk [mailto:publicaccess@cherwell-dc.gov.uk]
Sent: 29 January 2009 20:08
To: Public Access DC Comments
Subject: PublicAccess for Planning - Application Comments (08/02587/F)

PublicAccess for Planning  - Application Comments (08/02587/F)

"Rob Winter" has used the PublicAccess for Planning website to submit their comments on a Planning Application.  You have received this message because you are the Case Officer for this application or because this is a designated mailbox for PublicAccess comments submissions.

Comments were submitted at 29/01/2009 20:07:44 from

Application Summary
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Application Number: 
08/02587/F

Address: 
3A And 3B
Cotefield Farm
Oxford Road
Bodicote
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX15 4AQ


Proposal: 
Change of use for mixed use, storage, business and retail use to include sale of goods by auction

Case Officer: 
Graham Wyatt

Customer Details
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Name: 
Rob Winter

Address: 
11, Chestnut Drive,
Brackley,
Northants

Postcode: 
NN13 6ET



Comments
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Submission Type: 
Customer does not object to the Planning Application.

Comments: 
Jobs and commerce in the local community.

Giving cheaper opportunities for purchasing items for local people. Especially in the current economic climate.

There is ample safe, off-road loading and unloading facilities.

Recycling, Many items of bulky nature and low value not taken by other Auction Houses will be able to be sold 

The site at Cotefield Farm is easily accessible by road, train or bus and some of our customers even travel by bicycle, therefore the Auction does not interfere with the already congested town centre.

The auction company's carbon footprint will be greatly reduced as staff will not have to drive to and from Bicester every day, or goods transported from the Cotefield Farm site storage, which can sometimes be up to 10 vans loads per week. On average, travel, by staff and transport would be reduced by approx 25'000 miles per year.

There is no detrimental impact on the surrounding area and there will be no visual change on the site. The barns used for storage were there before there was an auction on the site and they already occupy 75% of the area for our stores.

The site at Cotefield Farm has been a popular venue for the four plus years they were trading there and they have built up a large local following of both buyers and sellers whilst trading in Oxfordshire for over 13 years.

They have spent the past year intensively searching and quite simply there is nowhere else in this area that offers all of the necessities and advantages of Cotefield Farm as a venue for our Auctions. Certainly nothing that is within the town or edge of town criteria that Cherwell formally suggested.

I can see no reason why this site should not be used for the auction room. It brings business into the town.


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