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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.
4,855 approved · 618 refused · 361 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 30 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oxford House, 35 Lower Road, Chinnor, OX39 4DU
Received 12 Feb 2026Site of The Rodings, High Road, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, OX10 0PS
Received 30 Jul 2025Jubilee Pavilion, Recreation Ground, Mackney Lane, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, OX10 0SQ
Received 23 Jul 2025Overview Stud, Sandy Lane, Horspath, OX33 1TF
Received 7 Jan 2026The Water Lane, Brookstones, Sydenham, OX39 4LY
Received 26 Jun 2024Spokes Farm Cottage, 31 Rectory Road, Great Haseley, OX44 7JQ
Received 15 Aug 2024Little Farm, Newnham Hill, RG9 5TS
Received 6 Jun 202426 Greys Hill, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1SJ
Received 8 Nov 2023The Merry Bells, High Street, Wheatley, OX33 1XP
Received 6 Aug 202457 Mount View, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2EJ
Received 30 Mar 2026East Hagbourne Pavilion, The Recreation Ground, Great Mead, East Hagbourne, OX11 9BN
Received 23 Mar 2026Corridor between the A34 Milton Interchange, and the B4015, north of Clifton Hampden
Received 8 Dec 2025Upper Copcourt Farm, Thame, OX9 7DE
Received 22 Apr 2025Land north of Oxford Road Thame
Received 13 May 2026Land to East of Newington Road Stadhampton
Received 11 May 2026Clifton Hampden Bypass, Clifton Hampden
Received 13 Jan 2026United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, near Clifton Hampden, OX14 3DB
Received 17 Feb 2026Street Record, Mersey Way, Didcot, OX11 7SB
Received 18 Apr 2024Former Theatre, Hardwick Estate, Whitchurch on Thames, RG8 7RD
Received 6 Nov 20249 Chiltern Bank, Peppard Common, RG9 5HU
Received 27 Nov 20235 Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1AB
Received 11 Jun 2024Boat House Reach, Henley on Thames, Oxon, RG9 1TJ
Received 22 Aug 202314 St Leonards Lane, Wallingford, OX10 0HA
Received 2 Jan 20241 Cratlands Close Stadhampton OX44 7TU
Received 17 Jun 2026Records 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 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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