Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Oxfordshire County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Chilton Recycling Facility, Waste Transfer Station, Downs Lane, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RP
Received Not publishedFerris Hill Farm
Received Not publishedArdley Fields, (adjacent to existing Recovery Facility (ERF))., Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedSonning Common Primary School, Grove Road, Sonning Common, Reading, Oxfordshire, RG4 9RJ
Received Not publishedOrmerod School, Waynflete Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8DD
Received Not publishedWindale Primary School, Windale Avenue, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, OX4 6JD
Received Not publishedR24, Land east of Road 8, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX
Received Not publishedCharton-On-Otmoor CE Primary School, Fencott Road, Charlton- On- Otmoor, Oxfordshire, OX5 2UT
Received Not publishedMick's Skips (Witney)
Received Not publishedShipton-on-Cherwell Cement works
Received Not publishedFinmere Landfill Site, Banbury Road, Finmere, Oxfordshire, MK18 4AJ
Received Not publishedLandfill No 2 Site, Goulds Grove, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 6PJ
Received Not publishedGosford Silos, Near Kidlington
Received Not publishedSutton Wick Site Office, Cemex Uk Materials Ltd, Former Sutton Wick Landfill, Peep-O-Day Lane, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4HB
Received Not publishedRadley Ash Disposal Site, Thrupp Lane, Radley, Abingdon
Received Not publishedBarton Park, Northern Bypass Road, Oxford, OX3 9SD
Received Not publishedLand at Faringdon Quarry, Fernham Road, Faringdon, SN7 7LG
Received Not publishedManor House, Swinbrook
Received Not publishedCaversham Quarry
Received Not publishedControlled Reclamation Landfill Site, Dix Pit, Stanton Harcourt, Witney, OX29 5BB
Received Not publishedSmiths of Bloxham
Received Not publishedNorthbourne CE Primary School, Cockcroft Road, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 8JL
Received Not publishedBenson C of E School, Oxford Road, Benson,Oxfordshire, OX10 6LX
Received Not publishedField Farm
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Oxfordshire County 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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