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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 · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for South Oxfordshire District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,284 approved · 656 refused · 395 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 30 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Swanston House, High Street, Whitchurch On Thames, RG8 7ER
Received 12 Jul 20242 Acremead Road Wheatley Oxford OX33 1NZ
Received 19 Jun 2026Moonfield House 12B High Street Long Wittenham Abingdon OX14 4QQ
Received 20 Apr 2026CHURCH AND GOSPEL HALL, HIGH ROAD, BRIGHTWELL-CUM-SOTWELL, OX10 0PT
Received 6 Mar 202689 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, RG4 9JR
Received 15 Nov 2024The Thatch 29-30 High Street Thame OX9 2AA
Received 3 Aug 2026Waterperry House, Waterperry Gardens, Waterperry, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ
Received 17 Jul 20232 Lower Icknield Way, Chinnor, OX39 4DZ
Received 16 Jun 2026The Smith Centre, Fairmile, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6AB
Received 20 Nov 2024Chalgrove Airfield, Sir James Martin Way, Chalgrove, OX44 7RJ
Received 13 Feb 202475 Brookmead Drive, Wallingford, OX10 9BH
Received 29 Jan 2026Wallingford Anaerobic Digestion Facility, Benson Lane, near Benson, OX10 6SQ
Received 12 Aug 2025Tumblegrove Section Of B4526 Running Through Crays Pond Crays Pond Reading RG8 7QF
Received 16 Jun 202621 Farm Close, Chalgrove, OX44 7RL
Received 1 Dec 20251 Sloane Close, Goring, RG8 0EL
Received 2 Oct 2023The Manor House, 26 High Street, Wheatley, OX33 1XX
Received 27 Nov 2023Rectory Cottage, Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, OX44 9PD
Received 23 Jul 202511 Windmill Lane, Wheatley, OX33 1TA
Received 1 Jan 202616 Langley Road, Chalgrove, OX44 7SZ
Received 27 Aug 2025Walnut Tree Cottage, Spring Lane, Aston Upthorpe, OX11 9EH
Received 1 Jul 2024M Newitt & Sons, 10 High Street, Thame, OX9 2BZ
Received 29 Apr 2024Howberrywood Farm, Newnham Hill, RG9 5TU
Received 3 Mar 2026Land north of Oxford Road, Thame
Received 4 Jun 202640 Brook Street, Watlington, OX49 5JH
Received 15 Apr 2024Records 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 South Oxfordshire District 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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