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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Great Tew Ironstone Quarry, Butchers Hill, Great Tew, Chipping Norton, OX7 4BT
Received Not publishedArdley Landfill
Received Not publishedDuns Tew Quarry (East), Horsehay Farm, Duns Tew Road, Middle Barton, OX7 7DQ
Received Not publishedCastle Barn Quarry, Sarsden, Chipping Norton
Received Not publishedHarwell ILW Store, Rutherford Avenue, Harwell, OX11 0RL
Received Not publishedSutton Wick Site Office, Cemex Uk Materials Ltd, Former Sutton Wick Landfill, Peep-O-Day Lane, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OXD14 4AB
Received Not publishedBowling Green Farm Sandpit, Stanford Road Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8EZ
Received Not publishedFinmere Quarry, Banbury Road, Finmere, Oxfordshire, MK18 4AJ
Received Not publishedCaversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Reading, RG4 6TX
Received Not publishedDewars Farm Quarry, Ardley Road, Middleton Stoney, Bicester, OX27 7PH
Received Not publishedAasvogel WTS, Downsview Road, Grove Technology Park, Wantage, OX12 9GN
Received Not publishedBurford Quarry
Received Not publishedBanbury Youth Club, Hilton Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 0EJ
Received Not publishedLand to North of B4493, Didcot Road, Didcot
Received Not publishedSutton Courtenay Landfill Site, Appleford, Abingdon, OX14 4PP
Received Not publishedStonehenge Farm, Northmoor, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedLaunton Church Of England School, Bicester Road, Launton, Oxfordshire, OX26 5DP
Received Not publishedThornhill Park & Ride, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 8DP
Received Not publishedAgrivert Compost Site, Battle Farm, Benson Lane, Preston Crowmarsh, Wallingford
Received Not publishedShowell Farm
Received Not publishedRollright Quarry, Little Rollright, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 5QB
Received Not publishedArdley Fields Farm, Middleton Stoney Road, Ardley, Oxfordshire, OX27 7PH
Received Not publishedCaversham Quarry, Sonning Eye, Reading, RG4 6TX
Received Not publishedLangford Village County Primary School, Peregrine Way, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 6SX
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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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.
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