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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
33,961 approved · 3,196 refused · 2,029 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Dec 2011 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 East Street Bicester OX26 2EX
Received 16 Jul 201812 Bicester Road Launton OX26 5DQ
Received 27 Aug 2025131 Grange Road Banbury OX16 9AT
Received 24 Jan 2022OS Parcel 7949 Adjoining And South Of A4095 Road North Of Kirtlington Park East Of Port Way Kirtlington
Received 25 Nov 2013Wisteria House 55 Lower End Piddington Bicester OX25 1QD
Received 17 May 2017Redundant Barn South West Of Fulling Mill Sandfine Road Broughton
Received 30 Jun 2017The Lion Main Street Wendlebury OX25 2PW
Received 16 Jul 2021Filkins Brill Road Horton Cum Studley Oxford OX33 1BN
Received 29 May 2014Land Adjoining Withycombe Farmhouse South Of Banbury Rise Track From Stratford Road To Withycombe Farm Drayton
Received 7 Jul 2025Wayhouse Farm Barn Bloxham Grove Road Bloxham OX15 4LL
Received 21 Jul 2020Land To Rear Of 50 To 52 Church Lane Yarnton
Received 5 Apr 2013Scotland Mount Round Close Road Hook Norton Banbury OX15 5NZ
Received 2 Jul 2015Lower Lodge Williamscot Banbury OX17 1AE
Received 4 Mar 2016Holly House Manor Road Adderbury Oxfordshire OX17 3EJ
Received 24 Jun 2022Horton Village Green The Green Hornton
Received 22 Sept 2020Cemetery At Cemetery Road Bicester OX26 6BB
Received 3 Oct 20196 Ambrosden Court Close Ambrosden Bicester OX25 2AR
Received 4 Oct 2017Coombe House Horton Lane Milcombe Banbury OX15 4RG
Received 12 Sept 201814 Warwick Court Bicester OX26 4YX
Received 4 Oct 2016Midsummer Cottage 74 Main Street Duns Tew Bicester OX25 6JL
Received 30 Nov 2016Land East Of Bicester Village (Phase 3) Pingle Drive Bicester
Received 2 May 2017Land To Rear Of Applea Banks Lower Street Barford St Michael
Received 23 Sept 2026Tamarisk Cottage South Side Steeple Aston OX25 4RT
Received 30 Jun 202124 Rectory Close Wendlebury Oxfordshire OX25 2PG
Received 13 Jul 2026Records 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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