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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
27,917 approved · 2,805 refused · 1,721 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tara Duns Tew Road Hempton Banbury OX15 0RA
Received 3 Feb 2020Foxden Crow Lane Great Bourton Banbury OX17 1RL
Received 28 Jun 2017214 The Moors Kidlington OX5 2AB
Received 23 Feb 2024The Old Fox Street From A43 Through Juniper Hill Juniper Hill Oxfordshire NN13 5RH
Received 9 Jan 202345 Merton Street Banbury OX16 4RX
Received 1 Apr 2025Unit 2 Kalabergo Close Banbury OX17 2FJ
Received 14 Aug 2023Land To The South Of Junction 12 Of The M40, And Adjacent To Banbury Road, Gaydon *outside of area*
Received 2 Jul 2025Crooked Thatch East End Hook Norton Banbury OX15 5LG
Received 1 Nov 2016Tudor Hall School Wykham Lane Banbury OX16 9UR
Received 13 Sept 2018119 The Moors Kidlington OX5 2AQ
Received 11 Dec 201710 Osborne Close Bicester OX26 2FU
Received 11 Aug 2016Hook Norton Brewery Brewery Lane Hook Norton Banbury OX15 5NY
Received 9 Sept 2022Meadowsweet Farm Hornton Lane Horley Oxfordshire OX15 6BL
Received 30 Jan 2024Mansion House Farm Roundhill Road Mollington Oxfordshire OX17 1AY
Received 23 Dec 2022Land North Of Hempton Road And West Of Wimborn Close Deddington
Received 20 Jan 2022The Limes The Green Shenington Banbury OX15 6NH
Received 16 Jan 201951 Church Street Kidlington OX5 2BA
Received 6 Jun 2023Out Building Adj To Kennels Bicester Road Stratton Audley OX27 9BT
Received 10 Nov 2022The Warriner School Banbury Road Bloxham Banbury OX15 4LJ
Received 24 May 2017North Aston Hall St Marys Walk North Aston OX25 6AA
Received 19 Jun 2020Oxford & Cherwell Valley College Broughton Road Banbury OX16 9QA
Received 5 Jun 2015Deddington Manor New Street Deddington Banbury OX15 0SS
Received 6 Jan 2023Fenbury South Newington Oxfordshire OX15 4JW
Received 17 Apr 2023Barn Approximately 25 Metres South Of Church Of St John Church Lane Barford St John
Received 6 Mar 2019Records 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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