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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Weston Park Farm
Received Not publishedLand west of the junction of Cuckoo Lane with the A40 (Park and Ride), land adjacent to A40 (bus lane)
Received Not publishedAppleford Sidings, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4PW
Received Not publishedHorsehay Quarry, West
Received Not publishedOakley Woods Landfill (Grundons)
Received Not publishedChilton Recycling Facility, Waste Transfer Station, Downs Lane, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0ST
Received Not publishedTubney Woods Quarry
Received Not publishedSonning Quarry, Playhatch Road, Sonning Eye Reading RG4 6TX
Received Not publishedHook Norton Library, High Street, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, OX15 5NH
Received Not publishedThames Water Plc, Banbury Sewage Works, Thorpe Mead, Banbury, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 4RZ
Received Not publishedSewage Treatment Works, Access Road to Sewage Treatment Works from Grenoble Road, Sandford-On-Thames, Oxford OX4 4XU
Received Not publishedNorth of the A420 Botley Road to south of the A423 ring road, running predominantly between the A34 to the west & the Oxford to London railway line to the east, including land between the A4144 Abingdon Road to the to the west & the River Thames...
Received Not publishedOrchard Meadow Primary School, Wesley Close, Oxford, OX4 6BG
Received Not publishedDewars Farm, Ardley Road, Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, OX25 4AE
Received Not publishedBicester Eco Town, Land at North West Bicester, Banbury Road, Bicester, OX27 8TG
Received Not publishedAlkerton Landfill
Received Not publishedCholsey County Primary School, Church Road, Cholsey, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 9PP
Received Not publishedShrivenham Primary School, High Street, Shrivenham, Swindon, Wilts, SN6 8AA
Received Not publishedThe Oxfordshire Museum, Fletchers House, Park Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, OX20 1SN
Received Not publishedMenlo Industrial Park, Rycote Lane, Thame, OX9 2JB
Received Not publishedLangford Village County Primary School, Peregrine Way, BICESTER, OX26 6SX
Received Not publishedA40/B4022 Shores Green Junction
Received Not publishedRutherford Avenue, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Harwell, Oxon, OX11 0DF
Received Not publishedEwelme Technical Waste Transfer Station, Goulds Grove, Ewelme, Wallingford, OX10 6PJ
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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