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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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land adjoining Whitelands Way, Kingsmere, Bicester, OX26 1AZ
Received Not publishedFilkins Quarry
Received Not publishedFinmere Quarry, Banbury Road, Finmere, Buckinghamshire, MK18 4AJ
Received Not publishedCaversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Reading, RG4
Received Not publishedLand to East of Old School, Road Running Through Baldon Row, Toot Baldon, Oxford OX44 9NE
Received Not publishedLand at Home Farm, Back Lane, Aston, Bampton, OX18 2DQ
Received Not publishedWicklesham Quarry, Sandshill, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7PQ
Received Not publishedChurch Cowley St James Primary School, Bartholomew Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 3QH
Received Not publishedManor Farm, Kelmscott
Received Not publishedStandlake Church Of England School, Church End, Standlake, Oxfordshire, OX29 7SQ
Received Not publishedRumbolds Pit, Eyres Lane, Ewelme, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 6HF
Received Not publishedA34 and A4183 Lodge Hill Interchange, north of Abingdon
Received Not publishedTarmac Asphalt Plant, Water Works Road, Banbury, Oxon, OX16 3JJ
Received Not publishedSutton Courtenay (Composting)
Received Not publishedWaste Recycling Group, Appleford Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4PW
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 publishedFinmere Quarry, Banbury Road, Finmere, Buckinghamshire, MK18 4AJ
Received Not publishedFitzwaryn Special School, Denchworth Road, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9ET
Received Not publishedNew Marston Primary School, Copse Lane, Marston, Oxford, OX3 0AY
Received Not publishedAlkerton Quarry, Alkerton with Shennington, Banbury, Oxon, OX15 6HY
Received Not publishedChipping Norton School, Burford Road, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5DY
Received Not publishedTackley Church Of England Primary School, 42, St Johns Road, Tackley, Oxfordshire, OX5 3AP
Received Not publishedManor Farm Twyford
Received Not publishedBurford Quarry, Burford Road, Brize Norton
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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