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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
37,927 approved · 3,466 refused · 2,204 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Dec 2009 to 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hethe House Main Street Hethe Bicester OX27 8ES
Received 25 Mar 201413 Scampton Close Bicester OX26 4FF
Received 11 Nov 2019Chapel Cottage Main Street North Newington Banbury OX15 6AJ
Received 27 Apr 2015Sadies Cottage 4 Cropredy Lane Williamscot Banbury OX17 1AD
Received 9 Nov 2015Stone Bungalow Mill Lane Drayton Banbury OX15 6EH
Received 4 Feb 2014Blackthorn Hill Windmill Blackthorn Hill Blackthorn
Received 7 Jul 20142 The Moorlands Kidlington OX5 2XX
Received 28 Mar 20193 Wesley Close Bicester OX26 2YE
Received 13 Jun 2014Paradise Farm Wigginton Road South Newington Oxfordshire OX15 4JS
Received 20 May 2026Kemsley Farm Northampton Road Weston On The Green OX25 3AA
Received 4 May 20212 Axtell Close Kidlington OX5 1TW
Received 1 Nov 2021The Lime Trees 5 Church Close Adderbury OX17 3LN
Received 9 Sept 202019 Austin Road Bodicote OX15 4AS
Received 29 Apr 2022Hornton Grounds Quarry Street From Stratford Road To Hornton Grounds Quarry Hornton OX15 6HH
Received 13 Sept 2019The Green Barn Stoke Lyne Road Stratton Audley Bicester OX27 9AT
Received 8 Dec 2014Bus Shelter Woodstock Road West Oxfordshire
Received 29 May 2013Old School House Fritwell Road Fewcott Bicester OX27 7NZ
Received 11 Nov 202557 Bath Road Banbury OX16 0TU
Received 22 Jun 2015Langsat House Main Road Swalcliffe OX15 5EH
Received 4 Jul 201964 Marlborough Avenue Kidlington OX5 2AP
Received 12 Sept 20251 Town Farm Main Street Mixbury Brackley NN13 5YS
Received 3 Jul 2023Tadmarton Grange Main Street Upper Tadmarton Oxfordshire OX15 5TB
Received 14 Jun 202294 The Moors Kidlington Oxfordshire OX5 2AG
Received 21 Apr 2023Studley Priory Horton Cum Studley Oxford OX33 1AY
Received 27 Jun 2018Records 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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