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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Cherwell District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Cherwell website
25,926 approved · 2,600 refused · 1,555 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Dec 2014 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
13 Larksfield Road Banbury OX16 9EG
Received 30 Oct 2017Former Tesco Pingle Drive Bicester OX26 6WA
Received 2 Dec 201631 Whitley Crescent Bicester OX26 4XP
Received 11 Apr 2023Phase 2 SW Bicester Parcel 7849 North Of Whitelands Farm Adjoining Middleton Stoney Road Bicester
Received 7 Dec 2017123 Oxford Road Kidlington OX5 2NP
Received 3 Nov 2021Kings Park Kings End Bicester
Received 21 Jan 2016Street record Wiilow End and Sycamore Road Ambrosden
Received 12 Oct 2023Dyers Farm Horn Hill Barford St Michael Banbury OX15 0RQ
Received 9 Nov 2016Rock Cottage The Hill Souldern OX27 7JE
Received 16 Nov 202163 Mill Street Kidlington OX5 2EE
Received 25 Mar 2020114 Camp Road Upper Heyford Bicester OX25 5AG
Received 16 Jun 2025Barn West Of North Aston Somerton Road North Aston Oxfordshire
Received 14 Jul 2016Mole End Barn Part Of Os Parcel 5900 South of North Newington Road Broughton
Received 5 Aug 2022The Old Vicarage Church Street Bicester OX26 6AY
Received 29 May 2020East West Rail Network Phase 2 The Scheme Railway From London Road Bicester To Station Road Launton
Received 1 May 202016 Poppylands Bicester OX26 3ZP
Received 16 Mar 202161 Easington Road Banbury OX16 9HJ
Received 5 Aug 2025Fant Hill Farm Barn Hayway Lane Hook Norton
Received 19 Jul 2018Alkerton Waste Recycling Centre Alkerton Banbury OX15 6NL
Received 25 Sept 2017Palmer House Main Street Hethe OX27 8ES
Received 23 Jul 2026Hanwell Chase Phase 3 East of Warwick Road Banbury
Received 23 Sept 2022Land East Of 0070 And Rear Of Plummers Ridge Farm Thorpe Road Wardington Oxfordshire
Received 26 Feb 201622 Rookery Close Bodicote Banbury OX15 4BA
Received 28 Oct 2022Land Adj To Promised Land Farm Wendlebury Road Chesterton
Received 18 Dec 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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