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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.
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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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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A 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 Andrews C Of E Primary School, Station Road, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, OX39 4PU
Received Not publishedWhitehill Quarry, Burford, OX18 4EX
Received Not publishedLand to the west of Shellingford Quarry, Stanford Road, Stanford-in-the-Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HE
Received Not publishedFrank Wise School, Hornbeam Close, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 9RL
Received Not publishedWroxton Fields Quarry, Nr Banbury
Received Not publishedBanbury Batching Plant (Lafarge)
Received Not publishedIffley Mead School, Iffley Turn, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4DU
Received Not publishedGill Mill Quarry, Standlake Road, Ducklington, Witney, OX29 7PP
Received Not publishedUnits 2A, 4 and adjoining land areas at Sturt Farm Ind. Site
Received Not publishedEwelme Waste Transfer Station, Goulds Grove, Ewelme, Wallingford, OX10 6PT
Received Not publishedAlkerton Quarry, Alkerton with Shennington, Banbury, Oxon, OX15 6HY
Received Not publishedGrundon Waste Management Ltd, Spital Farm, Thorpe Mead, Banbury, OX16 4RZ
Received Not publishedSheehan Recycled Aggregates Plant, Dix Pit, Stanton Harcourt, Oxon OX29 5BB
Received Not publishedBarford Road Farm, Barford Road, South Newington, Oxfordshire OX15 4JJ
Received Not publishedWoodstock Church of England Primary School, 2 Shipton Road, Woodstock, OX20 1LL
Received Not publishedLand at Faringdon Quarry, Fernham Road, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7LG
Received Not publishedSlape Hill Quarry, A44, Glympton, Near Woodstock, Oxon, OX20 1HS
Received Not publishedHanson Aggregates, Appleford Rail Sidings, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4PW
Received Not publishedEdward Feild Primary School, Bicester Road, Kidlington, OX5 2LG
Received Not publishedSite allocated for new Primary School, Land at Kingsmere Estate, Bicester
Received Not publishedAlkerton Landfill Site, Alkerton Landfill, Stratford Road, Alkerton, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedProspect Farm, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0ST
Received Not publishedCharlton Primary School, Charlton Village Road, Charlton, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 7HG
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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