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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land off Thorpe Mead, Overthorpe Industrial Estate, Banbury
Received Not publishedBattle Farm, Benson Lane, Preston Crowmarsh, Wallingford
Received Not publishedSutton Courtenay Landfill Site, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, OX14 4PW
Received Not publishedKing Alfreds School, Portway, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9BY
Received Not publishedCooper School, Churchill Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 4RS
Received Not publishedSt Marys Church Of England Primary School, The Green, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5DH
Received Not publishedRumbolds Pit, Eyres Lane, Ewelme Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX106HF
Received Not publishedLand adjacent to Building 418.19, Dido Road, Harwell Site, Didcot, OX11 0DF
Received Not publishedBuckland C Of E Primary School, Summerside Road, Buckland, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8RB
Received Not publishedAppleford Depot, Sutton Courtenay, Oxon, OX14 4PW
Received Not publishedDean Pit Former Household Waste Recycling Centre, Grove Lane, Dean, Chipping Norton, OX7 3JY
Received Not publishedChurch Cowley St James Primary School, Bartholomew Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 3QH
Received Not publishedGill Mill Quarry, Standlake Road, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 7PP
Received Not publishedLand to the North West of the A41, Junction of A41/Vendee Drive, Bicester, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedShellingford Church Of England Primary School, Church Street, Shellingford, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7QA
Received Not publishedSlade Park Fire Station, Horspath Driftway, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 7JG
Received Not publishedEwelme no 2, Ewelme, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 6PJ
Received Not publishedA34 and A4183 Lodge Hill Interchange, north of Abingdon.
Received Not publishedTarmac Asphalt and Concrete Batching Plants, Water Works Road, Hennef Way, Banbury OX16 3JJ
Received Not publishedOxfordshire County Council, Speedwell House, Speedwell Street, Oxford, OX1 1NE
Received Not publishedHunts Green
Received Not publishedFreeland CE Primary School, Parklands, Freeland, Oxfordshire, OX29 8HX
Received Not publishedSt Christophers Church Of England Primary School, Temple Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 2ET
Received Not publishedMoorend Lane Farm, Moorend Lane, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 3HW
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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