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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
9,898 approved · 1,026 refused · 789 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Unit 10, Culden Faw Estate, Greenlands Farm, Dairy Lane, RG9 3AS
Received 6 Jan 202535 St Nicholas Road, Wallingford, OX10 8HU
Received 1 Jun 202110 The Ridgeway, Nettlebed, RG9 5AN
Received 25 Jan 2023Land to the South of Thame Road, Great Milton, OX44 7NY
Received 16 Mar 202613 Holly Close, Highmoor Cross, RG9 5DY
Received 27 Mar 2024Beulah Lodge, 39 Northfield End, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2JJ
Received 12 Aug 202511 Shirburn Street, Watlington, OX49 5BU
Received 22 Jun 202327 Church Street, Didcot, OX11 8DQ
Received 4 Jan 2024The Gables, Eastfield Lane, Whitchurch On Thames, RG8 7EJ
Received 27 Apr 202119 Springhill Road, Goring, RG8 0BY
Received 27 May 2025Vale Cottage, Northfield Avenue, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3PB
Received 26 Feb 2020Woodleys, Main Street, West Hagbourne, OX11 0ND
Received 25 Feb 202110 Fox Cover, Chinnor, OX39 4TH
Received 23 Jan 2025Races Farm, Dairy Cottage, Aston Street, Aston Tirrold, OX11 9DJ
Received 19 Apr 2023Rivermead, 24 Preston Crowmarsh, Preston Crowmarsh, OX10 6SL
Received 3 Jan 202374 Queens Road, Thame, OX9 3NQ
Received 5 Aug 2020Moreton Park, Moreton, OX9 2HT
Received 15 Sept 2023Acorns, Wood Lane, Gallowstree Common, RG4 9BG
Received 23 Apr 2024Land at Badgemore Farm House, Fairmile, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2JY
Received 18 Nov 2024Car Park, Station Road, Didcot, OX11 7NN
Received 12 Jul 2021Lord Williams Upper School, Oxford Road, Thame, OX9 2AQ
Received 18 Jun 2025Buildings adjacent 1 Grove Farm Cottages, Grove Farm, Grove Road, Goring, RG8 0LU
Received 13 Aug 2020The Woodlands, Busgrove Lane, Stoke Row, RG9 5QB
Received 28 Aug 202020 Abbott Close, Didcot, OX11 8HX
Received 20 Mar 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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