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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39,419 approved · 3,562 refused · 2,272 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Meadow Garth Stratford Road A422 Drayton OX15 6EH
Received 31 Mar 20213 Mickleton View Main Street Upper Tadmarton OX15 5SH
Received 21 Jul 2026Holts Farm Mansmoor Road Charlton On Otmoor Kidlington Oxfordshire OX5 2UR
Received 11 May 2010Firs Cottage Upper Campsfield Road Woodstock OX20 1QG
Received 20 Dec 2021Water Moor House Station Road Launton OX26 5DX
Received 28 Nov 20193 Islip Road Bletchingdon Kidlington OX5 3DP
Received 9 Oct 2015Pickery Cottage Knowle Lane Weston On The Green Bicester Oxfordshire OX25 3QJ
Received 16 Aug 2012Vodafone Telecommunications Mast 1839 Bicester North Station Buckingham Road Bicester
Received 21 Dec 2021Dairy Cottage Main Street Wendlebury Bicester OX25 2PR
Received 13 Feb 201484 Kingfisher Way Bicester OX26 6YD
Received 3 Mar 2025Land South West Of Bicester Adjoining Oxford Road And Middleton Stoney Road Bicester
Received 23 Jan 2018Simms Farm Kirtlington Road Chesterton Bicester OX26 1TA
Received 4 Oct 20225 Chapel Lane Adderbury Oxfordshire OX17 3LY
Received 2 Jun 2011Electricity Sub Station Priory Lane Bicester Oxfordshire
Received 3 Dec 2010Magnolia Cottage The Green North Aston Bicester OX25 6HU
Received 7 Jul 201630 Cranesbill Drive Bicester OX26 3WG
Received 11 Jul 2019Feldon Cottage Chapel Lane Little Bourton Banbury OX17 1RQ
Received 29 Apr 2021Street Record Manorsfield Road Bicester
Received 20 Jun 2025The Cottage Philcote Street Deddington Banbury OX15 0TB
Received 29 Sept 2016Middle Lodge 34 High Street Bodicote Oxfordshire OX15 4BP
Received 25 Aug 2022Land South West Of Bicester Village Adjoining A41 Oxford Road Bicester
Received 19 Nov 20135 Pixey Close Yarnton Kidlington Oxfordshire OX5 1FY
Received 24 Oct 20117A Spinney Drive Banbury OX16 9TA
Received 31 Oct 2023Dairy Cottage South Green Kirtlington OX5 3HJ
Received 29 Apr 2020Records 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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