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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 · 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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Waste Recycling Group, Appleford Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4PW
Received Not publishedSite allocated for new Primary School, Land at Kingsmere Estate, Bicester
Received Not publishedNorth of the A420 Botley Road to south of the A423 ring road, running predominantly between the A34 to the west & the Oxford to London railway line to the east, including land between the A4144 Abingdon Road to the to the west & the River Thames
Received Not publishedTown Quarry
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 publishedTetsworth County Primary School, 15, High Street, Tetsworth, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 7AB
Received Not publishedDewars Farm, Ardley Road, Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, OX25 4AE
Received Not publishedCARTERTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE, UPAVON WAY
Received Not publishedLand at Sutton Wick Quarry, Sutton Wick, Abingdon
Received Not publishedLand southeast of Milton Interchange (OX14 4LS)
Received Not publishedDix Pit
Received Not publishedDidcot Parkway Station, Station Road, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7NR
Received Not publishedLand West of Cuckoo Lane and Adjacent to the A40, Eynsham, OX29 4PU
Received Not publishedCulham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB
Received Not publishedEnstone County Primary School, Oxford Road, Enstone, Oxfordshire, OX7 4LP
Received Not publishedShowell Composting Facility, Showell Farm, Chipping Norton, OX7 5TH
Received Not publishedLand to the west of Shellingford Quarry, Stanford Road, Stanford-in-the-Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HE
Received Not publishedLower Radley Phase 1
Received Not publishedBowling Green Farm Sandpit, Stanford Road, Faringdon, SN7 8EZ
Received Not publishedLand to the west of Shellingford Quarry, Stanford Road, Stanford-in-the-Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HE
Received Not publishedDix Pit Waste Transfer Station, Dix Pit Quarry and Landfill Site/ Former Con Bloc Works, Linch Hill, Stanton Harcourt, OX29 5BB
Received Not publishedArdley Fields Farm, Middleton Stoney Road, Ardley, Oxfordshire, OX27 7PH
Received Not publishedArdley Landfill, Ardley, Bicester, OX27 7PH
Received Not publishedMoorlands Centre, Dark Lane, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6LE
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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