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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
9,625 approved · 1,000 refused · 771 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Smith Centre, Fairmile, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6AB
Received 24 Sept 2025Culham Science Centre Nursery & Preschool, Culham Science Centre, near Clifton Hampden, OX14 3DB
Received 10 Jul 2025Site Of The Bungalow, Shirburn Road, Watlington, OX49 5BZ
Received 30 Jul 20251 St Marys Close, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1RD
Received 16 Jul 20259 Norman Avenue, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1SG
Received 16 Mar 2021St Nicholas House 90 High Street Wallingford OX10 0BW
Received 7 Oct 202622 Waterperry, Waterperry, OX33 1LB
Received 20 Apr 2023Pump House, Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon, OX44 9PE
Received 18 Oct 2022Donnelly, Newnham Hill, RG9 5TJ
Received 21 Apr 20232 Ilges Lane, Cholsey, OX10 9NX
Received 21 Dec 2023The Nelson, Brightwell Baldwin, Oxon, OX49 5NP
Received 19 Jun 2020The Henley College, Deanfield Avenue, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1UH
Received 17 Dec 2024Slaters Farm, Church Lane, Rotherfield Peppard, RG9 5JL
Received 15 Jun 2021The Stables, Parsons Lane, Ewelme, OX10 6HP
Received 2 Jun 2023Land south of Cuckoo Penn and east of Thame Road, Warborough
Received 21 Nov 202233-49 Washford Glen, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 7PU
Received 1 Mar 2024Former Lloyds Bank, High Street, Goring, RG8 9AT
Received 6 Jul 2020Dorchester House, Berinsfield Community Business, Wimblestraw Road, Berinsfield, OX10 7LZ
Received 2 Sept 2025Greyhound Lane, Thame, Oxon, OX9 3ZD
Received 28 May 202447 Reading Road, Cholsey, OX10 9HW
Received 5 Dec 202327 Wandle Beck, Didcot, OX11 7XB
Received 2 Aug 2024Willingtons Barn, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QH
Received 31 May 202355b The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8EA
Received 15 Oct 2020Land west of Marley Lane, Marley Lane, Chalgrove, OX44 7TF
Received 29 Mar 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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