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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
A boundary map is not available for this authority yet. Use council conservation-area and Article 4 guidance above where linked.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land West of Cuckoo Lane and Adjacent to the A40, Eynsham, West Oxfordshire OX29 4PU
Received Not publishedRumbolds Pit, Eyres Lane, Ewelme, Wallingford, OX10 6HF
Received Not publishedStanford Primary School, High Street, Stanford in The Vale, Faringdon, Oxfordshire SN7 8LH
Received Not publishedFinmere Landfill Site, Banbury Road, Finmere, Oxfordshire, MK18 4AJ
Received Not publishedBridge Farm Quarry, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4PP
Received Not publishedNorthfield School, Knights Road, Oxford, OX4 6DQ
Received Not publishedHickman Landscapes Ltd, Shipton Hill, Fulbrook, Burford, Oxon, OX18 4BZ
Received Not publishedHatford Quarry, Fernham Road, Hatford, Faringdon, SN7 8JQ
Received Not publishedGreenwoods of Garsington
Received Not publishedHampstead Bottom
Received Not publishedLand at the North of Plot 27, The Oxford Science Park, Oxford
Received Not publishedLand off Southam Road, Banbury, OX16 1ST
Received Not publishedStonehenge Farm, Northmoor, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedHickman Bros Landscaping
Received Not publishedSandfields Farm, Over Norton, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5PY
Received Not publishedCaversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Reading, RG4 6TX
Received Not publishedThe Thatched Cart Shed, Cogges Manor Farm, Church Lane, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 3AL
Received Not publishedEynsham Primary School, Beech Road, Eynsham, Witney, OX29 4LJ
Received Not publishedSonning Quarry, Playhatch Road, Sonning Eye, Reading, RG4 6TX
Received Not publishedGill Mill Quarry, Standlake Road, Ducklington,Witney, OX29 7PP
Received Not publishedJohn Hampden County Primary School, Park Street, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 3HU
Received Not publishedUpper Farm, Thame Road, Warborough, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 7DH
Received Not publishedA linear site comprising a corridor between the A34 Milton Interchange and the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden including part of the A4130 east of the A34 Milton Interchange, land between Didcot and the former Didcot A Power Station and the Great Western Mainline, land to the north of Didcot where it crosses a private railway sidings and the River Thames to the west of Appleford-on-Thames before joining the A415 west of Culham Station, land to the south of Culham Science Centre through to a connection with the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden
Received Not publishedBridge Farm Quarry, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4PP
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage