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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.
5,415 approved · 670 refused · 402 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Recreation Ground, Upper Red Cross Road, Goring, RG8 9BD
Received 14 Jul 2025Old Chalk Pit located within an agricultural field
Received 1 Feb 20243 Pump Lane, Thame, OX9 3BT
Received 24 Apr 2024Ledard, 8 Rotherfield Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1NN
Received 8 Aug 202316 Hop Gardens, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2EH
Received 14 Oct 2025Janes, Witheridge Hill, RG9 5PG
Received 24 Feb 2025111 Kynaston Road Didcot OX11 8HA
Received 12 Jun 2026Wood Rise, Widmore Lane, Sonning Common, RG4 9RR
Received 5 Mar 2026The Mill Cottage, Lock Approach, Goring, RG8 9AD
Received 5 Oct 2023Land east of Lower Farm, Barton Village Road, near Barton
Received 30 May 2023Romeyns Court, Church Road, Great Milton, OX44 7PD
Received 10 Feb 2026Riverside House Waterstock Oxford OX33 1JT
Received 3 Sept 2026Applewood, 74 Wallingford Road, Goring, RG8 0HN
Received 22 Mar 2024Oakwood, 22 Rotherfield Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1NN
Received 3 Oct 2025JoJos Vineyard, Russells Water, RG9 6EU
Received 22 Jan 2024Manor Farm Bungalow, 14 Mill Lane, Chalgrove, OX44 7SL
Received 7 Feb 2025Shirburn Road, Watlington, OX49 5BZ
Received 16 May 2023Yew Tree Cottage, High Street, Whitchurch on Thames, Oxfordshire, RG8 7EX
Received 22 Jul 2025The Cottage, Crowsley Road, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3JU
Received 3 Feb 2026The Old Rectory, High Street, Whitchurch on Thames, RG8 7DF
Received 6 Nov 2023The Plough, Stadhampton Road, Little Milton, OX44 7QD
Received 21 Sept 2023The Mill, High Street, Whitchurch On Thames, RG8 7DG
Received 4 Mar 2024Berinsfield Business Park, The Real Mini Co Ltd Tower Road Berinsfield Wallingford OX10 7LN
Received 3 Jun 2026Land to the west of the Green Marsh Baldon OX44 9LL
Received 10 Jul 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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