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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
City Farm Landfill Site, Eynsham
Received Not publishedSutton Wick Sand and Gravel
Received Not publishedShipton On Cherwell Quarry, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedHatford Quarry, Sandy Lane, Faringdon, SN7 8JH
Received Not publishedChalk Hill Primary School, Clover Fields, Great Western Park, Didcot, OX11 6GS
Received Not publishedASM Auto Recycling Ltd, Menlo Industrial Site, Rycote Lane, Thame, Oxon, OX9 2JB
Received Not publishedElmwood Farm, Burford Road, Black Bourton, Bampton, OX18 2PL
Received Not publishedWoodstock Church of England Primary School, 2 Shipton Road, Woodstock, OX20 1LL
Received Not publishedArdley Landfill
Received Not publishedLand at the North of Plot 27, The Oxford Science Park, Oxford
Received Not publishedBanbury Coating plant
Received Not publishedNew Wintles Farm, Eynsham, Witney, OX29 4EG
Received Not publishedBloxham Church Of England Primary School, Tadmarton Road, Bloxham, Oxfordshire, OX15 4HP
Received Not publishedGoring C of E Primary School, Wallingford Road, Goring, Reading, RG8 0BG
Received Not publishedGill Mill Quarry, Standlake Road, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 7PP
Received Not publishedFinmere Quarry, Banbury Road, Finmere MK18 4AJ
Received Not publishedLord Williams Lower School, Towersey Road, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 3NW
Received Not publishedGill Mill Farm, Tar Road, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, OX29 7PP
Received Not publishedShowell Farm
Received Not publishedNew Barn Farm, Cholsey, Nr Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 9HA
Received Not publishedLand of Southam Road, Banbury, OX16 1ST
Received Not publishedUpwood Quarry, Road running through Besselsleigh Village, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX13 5DW
Received Not publishedProspect Farm, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0ST
Received Not publishedGreenhill Farm, Station Road, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire, OX5 3BQ
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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