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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
26,373 approved · 2,660 refused · 1,584 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Dec 2014 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land East Of Evenlode Crescent And South Of Langford Lane Kidlington
Received 17 Nov 2015Riyes Cottage Aynho Road Adderbury OX17 3NU
Received 20 Apr 2020Sands House Moor Lane South Newington OX15 4JQ
Received 6 May 2021Town Farmhouse Mixbury Brackley NN13 5RR
Received 22 Sept 2017110 Oxford Road Bodicote Banbury OX15 4AE
Received 3 Jun 2024Lockhall Cottage Cow Lane Steeple Aston Bicester OX25 4SG
Received 9 Oct 2015First Floor Unit EY1A Pioneer Square Bure Place Bicester OX26 6FA
Received 5 Jan 2021CWL24937 Radio Base Cabinet Chapel Lane Bodicote OX15 4DB
Received 30 Sept 2022Ash Berry Cottage Main Street Duns Tew Bicester OX25 6JS
Received 24 Jul 2024Tadmarton Manor Main Street Upper Tadmarton Banbury OX15 5TD
Received 16 Nov 2022Graven Hill (Plot 313) 8 Edmunds Drive Ambrosden Bicester OX25 2BY
Received 22 Apr 20217 The Colony Colony Road Sibford Gower OX15 5RY
Received 24 Nov 2021Former 2 Chapmans Lane Deddington Banbury OX15 0SU
Received 19 Oct 2017Aubins Boxhedge Road Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 0BP
Received 5 Apr 2022Grannys Cottage 1 Church Lane Souldern OX27 7JQ
Received 27 Apr 2020Crosby Millers Lane Hornton OX15 6BS
Received 26 Nov 2020Little Garth Islip Road Bletchingdon OX5 3DP
Received 11 Jul 2024Ardley Landfill Station Road Ardley
Received 14 Sept 2016New Barn Farm Colony Road Sibford Gower OX15 5RY
Received 27 Sept 2024OS Parcel 5700 South Of Salt Way At Crouch Farm Bloxham Road Banbury
Received 10 Jan 2018The Light Cinema Spiceball Park Road Banbury OX16 2PQ
Received 23 Feb 2022OS Parcel 0005 South Of Hill Farm And North Of West Hawthorn Road Ambrosden
Received 23 Dec 201620 Turnberry Close Bicester OX26 4YQ
Received 15 Jun 2016Top Barn Farm Agriculture Building Unnamed B4035 Single Carriageway 6811256 Sibford Gower
Received 11 May 2023Records 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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