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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Tramway Road, Station Approach Road, Windsor Street and Bridge Street, Banbury OX16 5AB
Received Not publishedWallingford School, St Georges Road, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8HH
Received Not publishedAureus Primary School, Clover Fields, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 6GS
Received Not publishedTubney Woods Quarry
Received Not publishedSutton Courtenay Landfill
Received Not publishedFrank Wise School, Hornbeam Close, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 9RL
Received Not publishedAmbrose Quarry, Old Henley Road, Ewelme, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, RG9 5SS
Received Not publishedLand adjoining and to the east of Hanney Road, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedLongfields Primary School, Longfields, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 6QL
Received Not publishedShutford Sewage Treatment Works, The Plan Road, Shutford, Oxfordshire, OX15 6EX
Received Not publishedJohn Watson School, Steve Drywood Building, Wheatley Park Campus, Holton, OX33 1QH
Received Not publishedSewage Treatment Works, Access Road to Sewage Works From, Grenoble Road, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4XU
Received Not publishedTower Hill County Primary School, Moor Avenue, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6NB
Received Not publishedGrove Farm, Grove Lane, Dean, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 3JY
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 publishedAlkerton Landfill
Received Not publishedNew Marston Primary School, Copse Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 0AY
Received Not publishedGrundon Waste Management Ltd, Goulds Grove, Ewelme, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 6PJ
Received Not publishedSutton Courtenay Waste Management Site, Appleford Sidings, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4PW
Received Not publishedLongworth Undenominational, Bow Bank, Longworth, OX13 5EU
Received Not publishedLand of Southam Road, Banbury, OX16 1ST
Received Not publishedLand at Sutton Wick Quarry, Sutton Wick, Abingdon
Received Not publishedBurford Quarry, Burford Road, Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, OX18 3NN
Received Not publishedGreat Tew Ironstone Quarry, Butchers Hill, Great Tew, Chipping Norton, OX7 4BT
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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