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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
9,323 approved · 989 refused · 750 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Elvendon Road, Goring, RG8 0DP
Received 10 Jul 202437 Edwin Road, Didcot, OX11 8LQ
Received 8 Jul 2021Oxford Brookes University, Waterperry Road, Holton, Oxford, OX33 1HX
Received 15 Jul 2026Thames Bank South, High Street, Whitchurch on Thames, Oxon, RG8 7DB
Received 29 Jun 2021Formerly Greylands Cottage Shiplake Bottom RG9 5HD
Received 5 Aug 2026Land at Caversham Lake Watersports (North Lake), Henley Road, Caversham, RG4 9RA
Received 6 Jun 202324 Fairacres Road, DIDCOT, Oxon, OX11 8QG
Received 4 Aug 2020North Moreton Cricket Club, Bear Lane, Didcot, OX11 9AS
Received 29 May 202514 Walton Avenue, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, Oxon, RG9 1LA
Received 13 Nov 2023135 Thame Road, Warborough, Oxon, OX10 7DD
Received 31 Oct 20246 Henfield View, Warborough, OX10 7DB
Received 17 Apr 2024Walters Farm, Sandy Lane, Tiddington, OX9 2LE
Received 9 Dec 2024Primrose Cottage, Fairfield Road, Goring, RG8 0EU
Received 3 Sept 2020Fifield Farmhouse, near Benson, OX10 6HA
Received 5 Nov 202043 Edwin Road, Didcot, OX11 8LQ
Received 4 Jan 2021Hollybrook House, Henton, OX39 4AE
Received 4 Mar 20241 Templars Close Wheatley Oxford OX33 1PA
Received 10 Jul 2026Ashmount House, Ferry Road, South Stoke, RG8 0JL
Received 28 Jan 20215 Shotover Kilns, Shotover Hill, OX3 8ST
Received 22 May 2023Harcourt Arboretum, Oxford Lodge, Peacock Gate, Nuneham Courtenay, OX44 9PX
Received 16 Oct 2020Russetts 2 St Johns Lane Shillingford Wallingford OX10 7BP
Received 30 Apr 2026Days Weir, Little Wittenham, OX14 4RB
Received 1 May 2025150 Reading Road, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1EA
Received 15 Feb 2021Hillcrest, 37 Springhill Road, Goring, RG8 0BY
Received 22 Dec 2020Records 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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