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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
10,573 approved · 1,078 refused · 848 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 21 Sept 2023Manor Farm, Henton, OX39 4AE
Received 21 Apr 2023St Marys Church, Graveyard, Church Road, Great Milton, OX44 7PD
Received 4 Oct 202532 Fairacres Road, Didcot, OX11 8QG
Received 4 Sept 2025Winterbrook House, Winterbrook, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 9DX
Received 15 Jul 202111, Nuneham Courtenay, OX44 9NX
Received 20 Mar 202610 Manor Road, Didcot, OX11 7JY
Received 30 Apr 2024April Cottage, 32 The Ridgeway, Nettlebed, RG9 5AN
Received 12 Dec 2023Yew Tree Cottage, Priest Hill, Nettlebed, RG9 5AP
Received 16 Nov 20235 Abingdon Road Didcot OX11 9BL
Received 2 Jun 2026Glebe Farm, Cuxham Road, near Watlington, OX49 5NB
Received 21 Dec 2022Between 34 Fairmile & Andover House, Fairmile, Henley on Thames, Oxon
Received 26 Nov 2020Land adjacent to Hillview (aka The Cottage), Oakley Wood, OX10 6QG
Received 13 Jul 2020Sutton Bridge extension, Tollgate Rd, Sutton Courtenay & Culham, OX14 4NE
Received 31 Mar 2020Land at the Orchard, High Road, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, OX10 0PT
Received 16 Aug 202330 The Green North, Warborough, OX10 7DP
Received 4 Mar 2025Tennis court at Oakwood House, 16 Winterbrook, Wallingford, OX10 9EF
Received 9 May 2023Corridor between the A34 Milton Interchange and the B4015, north of Clifton Hampden
Received 7 Apr 20261 Blackmore Close, Thame, OX9 3ZH
Received 10 Feb 2021Plot on Sand Path, Beckley, OX3 9UA
Received 17 Feb 2023Stockwells Cottage Thorpe Street Aston Upthorpe Didcot OX11 9EG
Received 29 May 2026River of Life II, Earth Trust, Little Wittenham
Received 26 Sept 201926 Oxford Road, Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7LX
Received 2 Sept 2024Stanton House, Pound Lane, Stanton St John, OX33 1HF
Received 11 Apr 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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