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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
34,589 approved · 3,232 refused · 2,063 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Cavendish Place Stratton Audley Oxfordshire OX27 9BN
Received 14 Apr 2022Land Adjacent Fired Earth Twyford Mill Oxford Road Adderbury Oxfordshire
Received 17 Feb 2015Yew Tree House Station Road Launton Bicester OX26 5DX
Received 24 Aug 2017Manor Farm Hethe Road Hardwick OX27 8SS
Received 10 Jan 202332 Elton Road Banbury OX16 9TN
Received 14 Sept 2018Park Farm House Street Heading North From Acre Ditch Burdrop OX15 5RN
Received 8 Mar 2022Old Rectory The Walk Islip Kidlington OX5 2SD
Received 27 Jul 201637 St Johns Way Hempton OX15 0QR
Received 26 Jul 2022Caulcott Farm 25 South Street Caulcott OX25 4NE
Received 28 May 202570 Hornbeam Road Bicester OX26 3XZ
Received 1 Sept 2015OS Parcel 7300 Adjoining And East Of Nill Farm Bloxham Road Milcombe
Received 20 Mar 2017Nicholas Corner Burdrop Banbury OX15 5RQ
Received 20 Feb 2017Sugarswell Bungalow Sugarswell Lane Shenington Oxfordshire OX15 6FA
Received 28 Feb 2025Land Adj To Hangar 14 Oxford Airport Langford Lane Kidlington
Received 4 Jul 201722 Sheep Street Bicester
Received 2 Feb 2016The Willows 108A Mill Street Kidlington OX5 2EF
Received 8 Jun 20152 Chestnut Road Mollington Banbury OX17 1BG
Received 1 May 20143 Sycamore Close Sibford Gower Banbury OX15 5SB
Received 1 Jul 2016Meadow Farm Thame Road Blackthorn Bicester OX25 1QB
Received 26 Jul 2013The Old Wine House 27 High Street Banbury OX16 5EG
Received 7 Mar 2017High Furlong Farm Mollington OX17 1QE
Received 12 Jan 20242 The Bradburys Stratton Audley Bicester OX27 9AS
Received 6 Mar 2024Matalan Christchurch Court Banbury OX16 2BB
Received 13 Jan 202133 Oxford Road And Land To The Rear Of Nos. 35 - 59 Oxford Road Bodicote Banbury OX15 4AB
Received 10 May 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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