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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Cherwell District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
15,245 approved · 1,586 refused · 763 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Jul 2015 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
7 Dashwood Mews Kirtlington Kidlington OX5 3JX
Received 22 Sept 2022Various Banbury
Received 20 Oct 202336 Signal Regiment T A V R Army Reserve Centre Oxford Road Banbury OX16 9AN
Received 9 Dec 2024Honeypleck Chapel Lane Cropredy OX17 1PA
Received 17 May 2021The Mallards High Street Souldern Oxfordshire OX27 7JJ
Received 13 Feb 2026166 Oxford Road Kidlington OX5 1EA
Received 1 Nov 2023Horton General Hospital 93 & 95 Oxford Road Banbury OX16 9AJ
Received 31 Aug 2023136 Roman Way Bicester OX26 6FL
Received 25 Jan 2023Cobblers Cottage Chapel Lane Adderbury OX17 3LY
Received 27 Jul 2022Water Moor House Station Road Launton OX26 5DX
Received 11 Apr 2025Land Adj To Bicester Road And South West Of Avonbury Business Park Howes Lane Bicester
Received 3 Mar 2025Recreation Ground Keble Road Bicester Oxfordshire OX26 4UX
Received 16 Aug 2022Os Parcel 9635 North East Of Hm Bullingdon Prison Widnell Lane Piddington
Received 29 Apr 2020The Manse 34 Banbury Road Bicester OX26 2HJ
Received 2 Feb 2021Land To The Rear Of No.12 And South Of Dismantled Railway Heath Close Milcombe
Received 3 Mar 202520 Reedmace Road Bicester OX26 3WW
Received 4 Mar 2020Kirtlington Village Hall South Green Kirtlington OX5 3HJ
Received 13 Sept 2023Brooklands Development OS Parcel 3900 Adjoining Foxhill And West Of Southam Road Banbury
Received 15 Nov 2022153 Causeway Banbury OX16 4SF
Received 21 Dec 2023Verge adjacent to McDonalds Ruscote Avenue Banbury
Received 30 Sept 20264 Ringlet Close Ambrosden OX25 2DU
Received 17 Jan 202539 Bellenger Way Kidlington OX5 1TR
Received 8 Apr 202611 Wood Crescent Ambrosden Oxfordshire OX25 2BD
Received 7 Mar 2022The Duck On The Pond South Newington Banbury OX15 4JE
Received 29 Jan 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Cherwell District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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