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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
36,747 approved · 3,389 refused · 2,158 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Oct 2010 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
46 Catterick Road Bicester OX26 1AW
Received 7 Feb 201820B Market Square Bicester OX26 6AD
Received 5 Feb 20202 Priory Court Bicester OX26 6AB
Received 14 Mar 202230 Corncrake Way Bicester OX26 6UE
Received 3 Feb 2014121 Buckingham Road Bicester
Received 15 Sept 2014Whatley Hall Hotel 17-19 Horse Fair Banbury OX16 0AN
Received 4 Mar 202645 Woodhall Drive Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 9TY
Received 24 Jan 2012Holy Trinity Church Shenington
Received 25 Feb 201437 Aysgarth Road Yarnton OX5 1ND
Received 11 Jul 2019Graven Hill Circular Road Ambrosden
Received 9 Dec 2024Os Parcel 7970 North East Of Hanwell Castle And South Of Main Street Hanwell
Received 22 Nov 2019OS Parcel 0005 And Part OS Parcel 1300 0878 And 7566 Banbury
Received 19 Jul 2021Foxgloves Somerton Road Upper Heyford Bicester OX25 5LB
Received 26 Jul 2013Old Scrapyard Bunkers Hill Shipton On Cherwell
Received 15 Jul 2025Heyford Park Camp Road Upper Heyford Bicester OX25 5HD
Received 19 Aug 2026River Willows Mill Street Islip Kidlington OX5 2SZ
Received 6 May 2014The Shieling Main Street Sibford Ferris Banbury OX15 5RG
Received 18 Oct 2013Pond Cottage The Hill Souldern Bicester OX27 7JE
Received 24 Dec 2013Avalon Horn Hill Barford St Michael Oxfordshire OX15 0RQ
Received 22 Feb 2012Barn And Attached Stable At Manor House Main Street Mollington Banbury OX17 1BB
Received 22 Dec 20175 Chatsworth Drive Banbury OX16 9TS
Received 4 Mar 2026Jacobs Douwe Edberts Ruscote Avenue Banbury OX16 2QU
Received 26 Sept 202218 Lake Walk Adderbury Banbury OX17 3PF
Received 4 Apr 2016Banbury 200 Southam Road Banbury OX16 2FW
Received 15 Feb 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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