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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
37,353 approved · 3,417 refused · 2,180 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Feb 2010 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hanwell Castle Main Street Hanwell Banbury OX17 1HN
Received 29 Apr 201651 Beaconsfield Road Banbury OX16 9EP
Received 21 Feb 2024The Barn Somerton Road Upper Heyford Bicester OX25 5LB
Received 14 Jun 2013Cricket And Football Ground Castle Street Deddington
Received 18 Apr 2016Land South Of Cotefield Business Park Phase 2 Adj To Blossom Field Road Bodicote
Received 31 May 202215 Beagles Close Gosford Oxfordshire OX5 2QJ
Received 11 Jan 20127 Walpole Close Bicester Oxfordshire OX26 2YF
Received 6 Jun 2022Winwood Noke Oxford OX3 9TT
Received 21 Jul 20174 Kingerlee Road Banbury OX16 1HF
Received 16 May 2024Trident Roads Heyford Park Camp Road Upper Heyford Bicester OX25 5HD
Received 9 Aug 2024The Stone Barn 3 Lark Rise Court Cottisford Brackley NN13 5SW
Received 7 Jul 2015The Old Rectory Street From Banbury Road To Shipton On Cherwell Shipton On Cherwell Kidlington OX5 1JL
Received 30 Sept 2015Former Little Chef Part Of A34 By Weston On The Green Weston On The Green Oxford OX25 3QQ
Received 10 Jan 2018The Little House Clifton Road Deddington OX15 0TP
Received 24 Apr 2025Otmoor Nature Reserve Parcel Land South Of OS 5680 And Adjacent To River Ray Fencott Road Charlton On Otmoor Oxfordshire
Received 1 Mar 2011Sainsbury's 289 Oxford Road Kidlington OX5 2PE
Received 14 Mar 2017Phase 2 SW Bicester Parcel 7849 North Of Whitelands Farm Adjoining Middleton Stoney Road Bicester
Received 4 Mar 2019Land At Bicester Road Kidlington
Received 8 Oct 2024Broom House Philcote Street Deddington OX15 0TB
Received 2 Oct 2026Glebe Farm Water Stratford Road Finmere Buckingham MK18 4AT
Received 29 Aug 202515 Wimborne Avenue Banbury OX16 0DE
Received 21 Apr 201711 Jerome Way Shipton On Cherwell Kidlington OX5 1JT
Received 24 Apr 2018The Sunshine Centre 186 Edmunds Road Banbury OX16 0PJ
Received 30 Jan 201846 Lock Crescent Kidlington OX5 1HG
Received 30 Jul 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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