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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
10,317 approved · 1,060 refused · 829 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Little Baunton, Main Street, Forest Hill, OX33 1DZ
Received 8 Jun 2020Glendale, Elmhurst Road, Goring, RG8 9BN
Received 2 May 202596 Cotmore Close, Thame, OX9 3NE
Received 12 Apr 2021Toll Lodge Farm London Road Tetsworth Oxon OX9 7AZ
Received 1 Sept 2026Gypsy's Field, Kingwood Common, RG9 5NB
Received 14 Jun 20213 Walker Close, Woodcote, RG8 0QH
Received 31 Oct 2022Church Farm, Wallingford Road, North Moreton, OX11 9BA
Received 11 Sept 202072 Wilding Road, Wallingford, OX10 8AR
Received 9 Sept 2020Henley Manor Care Home Mill Lane Henley-on-thames RG9 4HD
Received 19 May 202617 East Street, Thame, OX9 3JS
Received 27 Jul 2023Chantry House, 14 Thames Street, Wallingford, OX10 0HD
Received 17 Jul 202364-66 High Street, Chalgrove, OX44 7SS
Received 7 Jan 202110 Hillary Way Wheatley Oxford OX33 1UY
Received 16 Jun 202671 Gidley Way, Horspath, OX33 1RG
Received 25 Aug 2020The Old Bakehouse, Baker Street, Aston Tirrold, OX11 9DD
Received 21 Dec 2020Conifers, 54 Oakley Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4HT
Received 26 Oct 2020Grenoble Road SW3, near Sandford, OX4 4YY
Received 25 Feb 20201 Clements Green, South Moreton, OX11 9AE
Received 13 Feb 2020Merlin House, Chinnor Road, Towersey, OX9 3QZ
Received 27 Feb 2020The Springs Golf Club, Wallingford Road, North Stoke, OX10 6BE
Received 15 May 2020Rainbow House, Wellsprings, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, OX10 0RN
Received 28 May 202537 St Marks Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1LP
Received 7 Dec 20228 Wallingford Road, Goring, RG8 0AH
Received 15 Nov 202233A Hagbourne Road, Didcot, OX11 8DP
Received 8 Nov 2019Records 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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