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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
38,430 approved · 3,488 refused · 2,225 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rectory Farm Church Street Bloxham Banbury OX15 4ET
Received 18 Sept 2014Heyford Park Camp Road Upper Heyford Bicester OX25 5HD
Received 28 Mar 2014Rowan Tree House Main Street Duns Tew Bicester OX25 6JS
Received 14 Sept 2016Telecommunications Mast Sunview Farm Southam Road Banbury OX16 1ST
Received 22 Nov 2022Stapenhill House Scotland End Hook Norton OX15 5NR
Received 11 Oct 2021The Lake House Lake Walk Adderbury Banbury OX17 3NG
Received 25 Sept 2013Chiltern Hills View Brill Road Horton Cum Studley OX33 1BU
Received 23 Feb 2022Ilbury Farm Barn Nether Worton Road Hempton
Received 9 Nov 201732 Bloxham Road Banbury OX16 9JN
Received 22 Feb 2021Manor Farm Barns Oddington Oxfordshire OX5 2RA
Received 16 Nov 2023Springfields 24 Station Road Cropredy Banbury OX17 1PP
Received 19 Aug 2014Land Adjacent To Malthouse Lane Shutford Oxfordshire
Received 12 Jan 201156 Longfields Bicester OX26 6QL
Received 19 Apr 202443 Bath Road Banbury OX16 0TU
Received 7 Dec 2015Little Fell 9 The Mead Mollington OX17 1DN
Received 5 May 2021Goms Yard Main Street Oddington
Received 27 Sept 2018Land To Rear Of 29 - 32 Pingle Drive Bicester
Received 18 Aug 2016Stone Holt Kenhill Road Shenington Oxfordshire OX15 6NQ
Received 8 Oct 2026Land Adj To 30 Brookside Way Bloxham
Received 29 Dec 2016Claytons Yard Launton Road Bicester
Received 20 Jan 2017Part Of Railway Embankment North East Of Aldershot Farm Howes Lane Bicester
Received 5 Feb 202182 Church Street Kidlington OX5 2BB
Received 7 Feb 2018Pegasus 3 Boxhedge Road Banbury OX16 0BP
Received 16 Oct 2015North Bar House 43-44 North Bar Street Banbury OX16 0TH
Received 14 Jun 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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