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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.
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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2,477 approved · 92 refused · 151 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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A 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 publishedOxford Science Park
Received Not publishedLand at Sutton Wick Quarry, Sutton Wick, Abingdon
Received Not publishedSewage Treatment Works, Polecat End Lane, Forest Hill, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX33 1EH
Received Not publishedWaterstock Golf Club
Received Not publishedShipton-on-Cherwell Quarry, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedOlde School
Received Not publishedLand at Sutton Wick Quarry, Sutton Wick, Abingdon
Received Not publishedGill Mill Farm, Tar Road, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, OX29 7PP
Received Not publishedSlape Hill Quarry, Woodleys, Woodstock OX20 1HR
Received Not publishedThe Warriner School, Banbury Road, Bloxham, Oxfordshire, OX15 4LJ
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 publishedLand at Coombe Farm, Chilworth Road, Great Milton, Oxfordshire, OX44 7NZ
Received Not publishedSonning Quarry, Playhatch Road, Sonning Eye, Reading, RG4 6TX
Received Not publishedLand at Home Farm, Back Lane, Aston, Bampton, OX18 2DQ
Received Not publishedWorton Farm, Cassington, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedNorth Kidlington Primary School, Benmead Road, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 2DA
Received Not publishedSpringhill Farm
Received Not publishedWroxton Fields Quarry, Stratford Road, Wroxton, Oxfordshire
Received Not publishedShipton-on-Cherwell Cement works
Received Not publishedBrookside Primary School, Bucknell Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 2DB
Received Not publishedCulham Science Centre, Abingdon Road, Culham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3DB
Received Not publishedBurford School, Cheltenham Road, Burford, Oxfordshire, OX18 4PL
Received Not publishedUpwood Quarry, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, OX13 5DW
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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