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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
39,155 approved · 3,544 refused · 2,259 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Dec 2009 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Oxford Road Kidlington OX5 2BP
Received 7 Oct 202116 - 18 Sheep Street Bicester OX26 6TB
Received 23 Dec 2020The Old Farmhouse Paddock Farm Lane Bodicote Banbury OX15 4BT
Received 11 Aug 2015Binn End Burdrop Banbury OX15 5RQ
Received 27 Jul 2015Phase 1 Barton Road Oxford Outside Of Area Outside Of Area Oxfordshire
Received 12 Jan 2016Crouch Farm Bloxham Road Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 9UN
Received 30 Aug 2011The Old Sweet Shop Netting Street Hook Norton Banbury OX15 5NP
Received 10 Jun 2015The Ley Community Sandy Lane Yarnton
Received 10 Oct 2023OS Parcel 0063 North East Of Crouch Hill Farm Adjoining Broughton Road Banbury
Received 23 Mar 20187 Bean Acre Road Hook Norton Banbury OX15 5UA
Received 17 Feb 2026The Stables At Bloxham Nursery Ells Lane Bloxham Banbury OX15 5EE
Received 17 Aug 2021Adjacent 23 Beaconsfield Road, Banbury, OX16 9EW
Received 20 Apr 2021The Croft Banbury Road Through Wardington Wardington OX17 1SE
Received 16 Mar 2026Stone Hill House Stone Hill Bloxham OX15 4PT
Received 16 Dec 2022Caravan At Sugarswell Farmhouse Sugarswell Lane Shenington Banbury OX15 6HW
Received 28 Apr 2017Heyford Park Camp Road Upper Heyford OX25 5HD
Received 17 Mar 2023Larch House 9 Oak Farm Close Milcombe Banbury OX15 4GB
Received 2 Mar 2018Wayside Cottage Church Lane Horton Cum Studley OX33 1AW
Received 23 Jul 2025Plum Cottage Philcote Street Deddington Oxfordshire OX15 0TB
Received 30 Oct 20235 Spenser Close Bicester OX26 2FA
Received 2 Jul 2013326-328 Bretch Hill Banbury OX16 0LP
Received 12 Sept 20253 Longfellow Close Bicester OX26 2XX
Received 24 Nov 2015Land South West Of The Surgery Stocking Lane Shenington
Received 27 Nov 2017Begbroke Science Park Begbroke Hill Begbroke Oxfordshire OX5 1PF
Received 16 Jun 2022Records 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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