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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.
5,016 approved · 634 refused · 373 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land between Pyrton Lane and Cuxham Road, Cuxham Road, Watlington, Oxfordshire
Received 29 May 20248 Lockstile Way, Goring, RG8 0AJ
Received 8 Jan 202620 Shirburn Street, Watlington, OX49 5BT
Received 13 Feb 2025White Cottage, Manor Road, Towersey, Oxon, OX9 3QR
Received 24 Jan 2024Hope Cottage, Manor Road, Towersey, OX9 3QR
Received 2 Oct 2025Park Lane Cottages, Stonor, RG9 6HD
Received 1 Apr 2026Cobbs Cottage 2 The Green North Warborough Wallingford OX10 7HA
Received 13 Apr 2026The Manor House, 26 High Street, Wheatley, OX33 1XX
Received 12 Nov 2025The Smith Centre, Fairmile, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6AB
Received 3 Feb 2025Widlake, 8A Winterbrook, Wallingford, OX10 9EA
Received 7 Oct 2025Carpenters Cottage, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QJ
Received 1 May 202550 Papist Way Cholsey Wallingford OX10 9QJ
Received 3 Jun 2026Land south of Appleford Road, Didcot
Received 12 May 2025Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, Henley Road, near Caversham, RG4 6LP
Received 13 Mar 20261 Swiss Cottages, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QQ
Received 17 Feb 2025Little Acorns, Stoke Row, RG9 5RB
Received 16 Jun 2025The Laurels, Mill Road, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3LW
Received 15 Dec 202511 Henton, Henton, OX39 4AH
Received 31 Aug 202325 Upper High Street, THAME, Oxon, OX9 3EX
Received 2 Oct 20231 Nuns Acre, Goring, RG8 9BE
Received 30 Jul 2025Peel Fold Mill Lane Henley-on-thames RG9 4HB
Received 11 Sept 2026Woodlands House, Harpsden Woods, near Harpsden, RG9 4AE
Received 27 Mar 202643 Beech Road, Thame, OX9 2AN
Received 31 Jul 2024CALA Homes Phase 7 (Infrastructure), Land at Willington Down, Didcot
Received 16 Oct 2025Records 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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