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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Oxfordshire District Council. Also known as SODC.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Oxfordshire website
9,277 approved · 989 refused · 745 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 26 May 202047 Reading Road, Cholsey, OX10 9HW
Received 5 Dec 202327 Old London Road, Wheatley, OX33 1YW
Received 7 Mar 2023St Nicholas House, 90 High Street, Wallingford, OX10 0BW
Received 1 Mar 2021The Doctors House, High Street, Little Milton, OX44 7PU
Received 6 Nov 2023Brook Lodge, 34 Brook Street, Benson, OX10 6LH
Received 16 Jun 2025Oak Trees, 209 Thame Road, Warborough, OX10 7DH
Received 10 Jul 2020Little Lollingdon, Westfield Road, Cholsey, OX10 9LS
Received 26 Oct 2023Grundon Waste Management Ltd Goulds Grove Ewelme Wallingford OX10 6PJ
Received 28 May 2026Yew Tree Cottage, Gallowstree Road, Peppard Common, RG9 5HT
Received 13 Dec 202281 Lower Icknield Way, Chinnor, OX39 4EA
Received 31 Mar 2025Old Farm House, Cox Lane, Stoke Row, RG9 5QG
Received 11 Apr 2024143 Chinnor Road, Thame, OX9 3LS
Received 17 May 20234 Green Lane, Ewelme, OX10 6DA
Received 4 Mar 20241B Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, RG4 9JR
Received 25 Aug 2023Highway House Barn, Rectory Road, Great Haseley, OX44 7JG
Received 27 Jun 202432 Bell Street, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, Oxon, RG9 2BG
Received 12 May 2021Church Farm, Chiselhampton, OX44 7XF
Received 15 Jun 2021Minchin Recreation Ground, Drayton Road, Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7PJ
Received 31 Mar 202612 Drays Lane, Rotherfield Peppard, RG9 5JW
Received 16 Jul 20249 Schuster Close, Cholsey, OX10 9GY
Received 14 Dec 2022Old Manor Cottage, Wallingford Road, North Moreton, OX11 9BA
Received 13 Nov 20231 Elizabeth Close, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1RE
Received 5 Jun 202322 Swarbourne Close, Didcot, OX11 7UL
Received 14 Nov 2025Records 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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