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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
10,395 approved · 1,065 refused · 836 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hales Meadows, Abingdon Cricket Clubs Culham Road Abingdon OX14 3HP
Received 15 Jul 2026Rose Cottage, Colmore Lane, Kingwood, RG9 5LX
Received 20 Nov 2020Land at Old Manor Farm, Rectory Lane, Bix, RG9 6BT
Received 30 Jun 2025Moor Court Cottage, Weston Road, Lewknor, OX49 5RU
Received 8 Jul 202019 Papist Way, Cholsey, OX10 9LL
Received 16 Dec 2025Land to the north east of Didcot, Didcot
Received 4 Apr 2023Wheatley House, 12 Station Road, Wheatley, OX33 1ST
Received 22 Sept 2020Church Of St Mary-le-more, Market Place, Wallingford, OX10 0EG
Received 15 Aug 2025Land Adjacent to 55 Broadway, Didcot, OX11 8AJ
Received 29 Nov 2022Olive Cottage, 3 Rectory Road, Great Haseley, OX44 7JS
Received 10 Jun 202510 Seven Acres, Thame, OX9 3JQ
Received 6 Jul 2021Riverside Location of Footpath, from High Street, Long Wittenham
Received 30 Nov 2020Fieldside House, Mackney Lane, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, OX10 0SJ
Received 31 May 2023The Holford Centre, Wheatley Road, Stanton St John, OX33 1EX
Received 20 Oct 2020Woodlands, Green Lane, Woodcote, RG8 0RT
Received 28 Apr 2021Fairwinds, New Road, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3LH
Received 2 Dec 2019The Red Lion, Colliers Lane, Rotherfield Peppard, RG9 5LB
Received 5 Nov 20255 St Annes Close, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1XA
Received 7 Oct 2024Wesley House, Denton Hill, Cuddesdon, OX44 9HZ
Received 27 Jan 202333 Roman Road, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, OX33 1UX
Received 25 Apr 20252 Newton Way, Benson, OX10 6NS
Received 13 Mar 2025St Nicholas House, 90 High Street, Wallingford, OX10 0BW
Received 7 Jul 2021101 High Street, Wallingford, OX10 0BL
Received 1 Dec 2020Land to the north of The Warren, Reading Road, Shiplake Cross, RG9 4BX
Received 24 Jun 2025Records 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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