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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
6, Great Mead, East Hagbourne, Didcot, OX11 9BN
Received Not publishedUffington C Of E Primary School, Broad Street, Uffington, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7RA
Received Not publishedSalford Manor Estate, Cross Hands Hill, Salford, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5FQ
Received Not publishedNorthfield School, Knights Road, Oxford, OX4 6DQ
Received Not publishedSutton Courtenay Resource Recovery Park
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 publishedSt. Mary's C of E Infant School, 19 Church Green, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 4AZ
Received Not publishedDix Pit Landfill, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedWaste Transfer Station, Chilton Waste Transfer Station, Downs Lane, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RP
Received Not publishedSupergas Industrial Estate, Minster Lovell, Witney, OX29 0SZ
Received Not publishedFinmere Quarry
Received Not publishedAlkerton Landfill Site, Alkerton Landfill, Stratford Road, Alkerton, Oxfordshire
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 publishedSutton Courtenay Landfill Site, Appleford Sidings, Sutton Courtenay
Received Not publishedWicklesham Quarry, Sandshill, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7PQ
Received Not publishedShipton on Cherwell Quarry, Bunkers Hill, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 3BA
Received Not publishedCharlton Acorns Pre-School, Charlton Primary School, Charlton Village Road, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 7HG
Received Not publishedWorsham Quarry, Burford Road, Minster Lovell
Received Not publishedLand South of Park Road, Faringdon, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedCaversham Quarry
Received Not publishedCaversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Reading, RG4 6TX
Received Not publishedHorsehay Quarry, West
Received Not publishedBowling Green Farm Sandpit, Stanford Road, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8EZ
Received Not publishedLower Radley Phase 1
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