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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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Great Tew Quarry, Banbury Road, Great Tew, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 4BT
Received Not publishedGill Mill Quarry, Standlake Road, Ducklington, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 7PP
Received Not publishedStonehenge Farm, Northmoor, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedWhitehill Quarry, South of A40, Burford OX18 4EX
Received Not publishedWoodstock Church of England Primary School, 2 Shipton Road, Woodstock, OX20 1LL
Received Not publishedTuckwells Plant Area
Received Not publishedJohn Watson School, Steve Drywood Building, Wheatley Park Campus, Holton, Oxfordshire, OX33 1QH
Received Not publishedland off the B480, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedSutton Courtenay Resource Park, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedLand Adjoining Stone Hills Lane, Oday Hill, Sutton Wick, Abingdon, OX14 4AA
Received Not publishedSouth Moreton Primary School, High Street, South Moreton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 9AG
Received Not publishedControlled Reclamation Landfill Site, Dix Pit, Stanton Harcourt, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 5BB
Received Not publishedGill Mill Quarry, Standlake Road, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 7PP
Received Not publishedDean Pit Waste Recycling Centre, Grove Lane, Chadlington, Oxfordshire, OX7 3JY
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 publishedWhitehill, Tackley
Received Not publishedMoorland Centre, Dark Lane, Winey, OX28 6LE
Received Not publishedChesterton Church Of England Primary School, Alchester Road, Chesterton, OX26 1UN
Received Not publishedMadley Brook Community Primary School, Cedar Drive, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 1AR
Received Not publishedLand at the North of Plot 27, The Oxford Science Park and land known as Plot 16, The Oxford Science Park
Received Not publishedLand South of Park Road, Faringdon, SN7 7PL
Received Not publishedArdley Energy Recovery Facility, Middleton Stoney Road, Ardley, Oxfordshire, OX27 7AA
Received Not publishedArdley Landfill
Received Not publishedArdley Fields Farm, Middleton Stoney Road, Ardley, Oxfordshire, OX27 7PH
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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