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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
28,853 approved · 2,872 refused · 1,773 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
81, 83 & 85 Sheep Street Bicester OX26 6JS
Received 15 Jan 2026Redrow Development Saltway OS Parcels 1200 3100 2000 1981 South Of Salt Way Bloxham Road Banbury
Received 1 Mar 2022Unit D1 Graven Hill Circular Road Ambrosden
Received 17 Sept 20241 Foundation Square Graven Hill Ambrosden Bicester OX25 2AQ
Received 11 Aug 201627 Lysander Close Bicester Oxfordshire OX26 4TJ
Received 11 Jul 2022Manor House Main Street Mollington Banbury OX17 1BB
Received 5 Nov 201813 High Street Kidlington OX5 2DH
Received 1 Jul 2015Former Oxfordshire Care Partnership Building London Road Bicester
Received 29 Mar 2019Land North And West Of Bretch Hill Reservoir Adj To Balmoral Avenue Banbury
Received 20 Mar 2023Longford Park Parcel F Adjacent To Bankside Banbury
Received 22 Jun 2015Dhl Supply Chain Cherwell 3 Brookhill Way Banbury OX16 3ED
Received 23 May 202254 Green Road Kidlington OX5 2EX
Received 26 May 2020Akeman Spinney Heyford Road Kirtlington Kidlington OX5 3HS
Received 12 Dec 2018Coppers Pound Lane Sibford Gower Banbury OX15 5RR
Received 23 Mar 201723 Brantwood Rise Banbury OX16 9NH
Received 20 Mar 20201 Colegrave Road Bloxham Banbury OX15 4NT
Received 22 Sept 2016Street Record Samuelson Court Banbury
Received 11 Jun 2018Corner House Islip Road Bletchingdon Oxfordshire OX5 3DP
Received 7 Dec 2023Land To Rear Of Tangmere Close And Scampton Close Bicester
Received 18 Aug 201637 Waller Drive Banbury OX16 9NS
Received 5 May 2015Courtyard To The Rear Of 64 - 65 High Street Banbury
Received 8 Sept 2015The Dower House Church Road Weston On The Green Bicester OX25 3QP
Received 7 Sept 2017Stanhope 13 Fiveacres Murcott Kidlington OX5 2RP
Received 14 Feb 202427 Oxford Road Hampton Poyle OX5 2QA
Received 3 Aug 2021Records 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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