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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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Thomas Reade Primary School, Radley Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3RR
Received Not publishedThornbury House, The Moors, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 2XT
Received Not publishedSupergas Industrial Estate, Minster Lovell, Witney, OX29 0SS
Received Not publishedMoors Mill Farm
Received Not publishedBayards Hill Primary School, Bayswater Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9NU
Received Not publishedM&M Skips (Station Lane), Witney
Received Not publishedArdley Energy Recovery Facility, Ardley Landfill, Middleton Stoney Road, Ardley, OX27 7PH
Received Not publishedBattle Farm, Benson Lane, Preston Crowmarsh, Wallingford
Received Not publishedUpwood Quarry, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, OX13 5DW
Received Not publishedBromag Industrial Site (Witney)
Received Not publishedSheehan Recycled Aggregates Plant, Dix Pit, Stanton Harcourt, Witney, OX29 5BB
Received Not publishedSpeedwell House, Speedwell Street, Oxford, OX1 1NE
Received Not publishedCholsey Primary School, Church Road, Cholsey, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 9PP
Received Not publishedTramway Road, Station Approach, Windsor Street and Bridge Street, Banbury
Received Not publishedDix Pit Household Waste Recycling Centre, Linch Hill, Stanton Harcourt OX29 5BB
Received Not publishedLand at Quarry Farm North of Green Lane, Green Lane, Chipping Norton, Great Tew OX7 4NS
Received Not publishedSutton Courtney Landfill, Appleford Sidings, Abingdon
Received Not publishedBaulking
Received Not publishedLand north-east of the A4074/B4009 Elm Bridge Roundabout; and land north of the new residential development to the north of Littleworth Road, at Benson, South Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedLand off Green Lane Great Tew
Received Not publishedHorsehay Quarry, West
Received Not publishedEwelme No2
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 publishedBattle Farm, Benson Lane, Preston Crowmarsh, Wallingford
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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