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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
39,419 approved · 3,562 refused · 2,272 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Beaumaris Close Banbury OX16 0XE
Received 2 Jun 2017Castle End House Castle Street Deddington Banbury OX15 0TE
Received 27 Jan 2017OS Parcel 0084 Adjoining A41 South Of Tesco Oxford Road Bicester
Received 10 Oct 2018Littlebury Backside Lane Sibford Gower OX15 5RS
Received 14 Jan 2022McDonalds Baynards Green Bicester OX27 7SG
Received 8 Mar 2017Land Parcel KM1 Land South West Of Bicester Adjoining Oxford Road And Middleton Stoney Road Bicester Oxfordshire
Received 14 Oct 2011Bicester Village Pingle Drive Bicester
Received 27 Jan 2021Heyford Park Camp Road Upper Heyford Bicester OX25 5HD
Received 12 Mar 2019Timber House Blackthorn Road Launton OX26 5DA
Received 30 Oct 2020Uplands Down End Hook Norton Banbury OX15 5LW
Received 7 Mar 2018Swalcliffe Park School Main Road Swalcliffe Banbury OX15 5EP
Received 26 May 2017OS Parcel 2678 Adj A43 A34 By Hampton Gay And Poyle Hampton Gay And Poyle Oxfordshire
Received 22 May 2012Telecommunications Mast 4962 Manor Farm Northampton Road Weston On The Green
Received 9 Jun 2026Heath Barn Sibford Gower Oxfordshire
Received 2 Feb 2012Bicester Avenue Garden Centre Oxford Road Bicester Oxfordshire OX25 2NY
Received 14 Sept 201163 St Johns Way Hempton Banbury OX15 0QR
Received 20 Sept 2016St James Farm Main Street Clifton Oxfordshire OX15 0PD
Received 16 Dec 2009Colne House, Colne Close & Evenlode House, Evenlode Close Bicester Oxfordshire
Received 25 May 2011330 Bretch Hill Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 0LP
Received 17 Oct 2011Wardington House, Sutherlands Banbury Road Through Wardington Wardington Oxfordshire OX17 1SD
Received 4 Mar 2022Berryfield Farm Hook Norton Road Hook Norton Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5SD
Received 22 Jun 2011Jaydees Stratford Road A422 Drayton Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 6EF
Received 5 Jul 201227 Keats Road Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 9QY
Received 22 Nov 2012104 Causeway Banbury OX16 4SQ
Received 11 Feb 2014Records 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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