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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
30,010 approved · 2,940 refused · 1,821 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Oct 2013 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
42 London Road Bicester OX26 6BX
Received 15 Jan 202440 Churchill Road Kidlington OX5 1BW
Received 30 May 2022Vine Cottage Main Street Hethe Bicester OX27 8HD
Received 16 Apr 2024Cornerways Millers Lane Hornton OX15 6BS
Received 23 Mar 2026Mill Cottage Wroxton Lane Horley OX15 6BB
Received 7 Oct 2024Land Adjoining Withycombe Farmhouse Stratford Road A422 Drayton
Received 15 Jan 2024Fire Party House Building 87 DLO Caversfield Skimmingdish Lane Caversfield Oxfordshire
Received 11 Sept 2014The Ben Jonson Inn Northampton Road Weston On The Green Kidlington OX25 3RA
Received 27 Nov 20201 Ventfield Close Horton Cum Studley Oxford OX33 1AN
Received 10 Feb 2016The Beeches Heyford Road Steeple Aston Bicester OX25 4SN
Received 14 Mar 2019Land Parcel 5951 Warwick Road Banbury
Received 22 May 2018Candlewick Cottage South Newington Oxfordshire OX15 4JW
Received 5 Jun 202361 Trinity Close Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 0UB
Received 4 Mar 2022The Ley Community Sandy Lane Yarnton OX5 1PB
Received 16 Jun 2020Cross Hill House Cross Hill Road Adderbury OX17 3EG
Received 3 Jun 2024Well Stone 3 Church Street Wroxton Banbury OX15 6QE
Received 12 Nov 2015Merton Stud Merton Oxfordshire OX25 2NF
Received 12 Jun 2026Woolsthorpe Burycroft Road Hook Norton Banbury OX15 5PR
Received 5 Aug 2014Land off Southam Road Banbury OX16 2DF
Received 25 Jan 2021Vicarage Farm House Alchester Road Chesterton Bicester OX26 1UQ
Received 26 Jan 2018The Coach House Mill Street Kidlington OX5 2EE
Received 19 May 2016Hadsham Barn Hornton Lane Horley Banbury OX15 6BN
Received 24 Jul 201811 Partridge Chase Bicester OX26 6XF
Received 5 Sept 202272 Oxford Road Banbury OX16 9AN
Received 15 Nov 2022Records 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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