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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
9,456 approved · 992 refused · 759 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The John Barleycorn, Manor Road, Goring, RG8 9DP
Received 24 Jun 2025Keepers Cottage, Mill Street, Stanton St John, OX33 1HN
Received 10 May 202461 Brinkinfield Road, Chalgrove, OX44 7QX
Received 2 Jul 2021Cariad Court, Cleeve Road, Goring, RG8 9BT
Received 15 Feb 202414 Mill Lane, Great Haseley, OX44 7JU
Received 19 Feb 2025Long Wittenham Athletic Club Long Wittenham OX14 4QW
Received 14 Jul 2026Lower Hernes, Road Through Hernes Estate, Rotherfield Greys, RG9 4NT
Received 7 Jul 2023The Manor House, Church Hill, Little Milton, OX44 7QB
Received 8 Jun 2021St James House, Sotwell Street, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, OX10 0RH
Received 21 Sept 2020Dodwells Solar Farm, Land north of the A40, near Thame
Received 6 May 2025Land to the rear of 96 & 98 Norreys Road, Didcot, OX11 0AN
Received 4 Jun 202519 Meadow Way, Didcot, OX11 0AU
Received 10 Aug 2023Two Brewers House, 50 North Street, Thame, OX9 3BH
Received 4 Nov 2025Wittenham House, Little Wittenham, OX14 4RA
Received 14 Dec 20231 Keydale Road, Wheatley, OX33 1NS
Received 24 Sept 202534 Greys Hill, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1SJ
Received 8 Mar 2024Land west of Main Avenue, Culham Science Centre, near Clifton Hampden, OX14 3DB
Received 17 Apr 2023The Old Barn, Kings Farm Lane, Harpsden, RG9 4JG
Received 10 Oct 20235 Kidmore Lane, Sonning Common, RG4 9SH
Received 5 Jun 2023Britwell House, Section Of B4009 Between Turners Green And Grove Lane, Britwell Salome, OX49 5LJ
Received 5 Sept 2025Camoys Court, Clifton Hampden Road, Chiselhampton, OX44 7UZ
Received 18 Oct 2022Site of former Georgetown Filling Station, Broadway, Didcot, OX11 8SD
Received 26 Apr 2024The Eyot House, Sonning Eye, RG4 6TN
Received 17 Jul 202416 Gorwell, Watlington, OX49 5QD
Received 6 Nov 2023Records 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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