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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
27,733 approved · 2,788 refused · 1,704 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Mar 2014 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Heyford Park Camp Road Upper Heyford Bicester OX25 5HD
Received 3 May 20179 Old Glebe Upper Tadmarton Banbury OX15 5TH
Received 11 May 2015Temple Mill Woodway Road Sibford Ferris Banbury OX15 5DA
Received 23 Aug 2018Savee Farm Hornton Lane Horley OX15 6BN
Received 23 Feb 2023The Stables School Lane Cropredy Banbury OX17 1PX
Received 2 Aug 2016Proposed School Site Bankside Banbury
Received 29 Jul 20151-6 Malthouse Walk Banbury OX16 5PW
Received 26 Oct 202038 South Bar Street Banbury OX16 9AE
Received 11 Jun 2024Land Adjacent To Esso Station Street To Baynards Green Farm Baynards Green Bicester OX27 7SG
Received 17 Feb 20173 Daisy Hill Duns Tew Bicester OX25 6LB
Received 13 May 2015Land Adj To Lince Lane Access Of Station Road Enslow Kidlington OX5 3AX
Received 19 Jul 2017Forge House Shutford Road North Newington Banbury OX15 6AL
Received 8 Dec 201753 Buckingham Road Bicester OX26 3EY
Received 5 Jun 20251 White Horses Close Bodicote Banbury OX15 4FJ
Received 17 Sept 20253 The Priory Priory Lane Bicester
Received 5 Mar 2015Land Adjoining And West Of Warwick Road Banbury
Received 2 May 2019Springfields 24 Station Road Cropredy Banbury OX17 1PP
Received 26 May 2016Timbers Water Lane Steeple Aston OX25 4SB
Received 16 Dec 202417 Plumpton Road Bicester OX26 1AQ
Received 15 Jan 2025March House March Road Mollington OX17 1BP
Received 14 Jan 2020O2 Telecommunications Mast 649 Bicester Police Station Queens Avenue Bicester OX26 2NT
Received 10 Dec 2025The Warriner School Banbury Road Bloxham Banbury OX15 4LJ
Received 11 Jun 2019Standwell Lower Street Barford St Michael Oxfordshire OX15 0RH
Received 2 Mar 2022KFC Unit 1 Audley House Buckingham Road Bicester OX26 3AH
Received 26 Nov 2018Records 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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