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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
10,722 approved · 1,086 refused · 857 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Green Thatch, Main Street, West Hagbourne, OX11 0ND
Received 24 Oct 2022The Manor House, 26 High Street, Wheatley, OX33 1XX
Received 30 Jul 20247 Flat 3, River Terrace, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1BG
Received 1 Dec 2022Thameside House, Cleeve Road, Goring, RG8 9BJ
Received 14 Mar 202554 High Street, Thame, OX9 3AH
Received 23 Aug 202417 Wood Street, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 0AX
Received 24 Feb 2023Syringa, Rod Eyot, Wargrave Road, near Henley-on-Thames, RG9 3JD
Received 5 Feb 2025Walnut Tree Cottage, High Street, South Moreton, OX11 9AG
Received 16 Jan 2025Camilla Cottage, Waterstock, Oxon, OX33 1JT
Received 1 Aug 202420 Shirburn Street, Watlington, OX49 5BT
Received 13 Feb 2025Home Barn Farm Waterstock Oxford OX33 1JU
Received 16 Sept 2026Sewage Treatment Works, Access road to Sewage Works from Grenoble Road, Sandford-on-Thames, OX4 4XU
Received 7 Jan 2026The Manor House, Thame Road, Great Haseley, OX44 7JY
Received 18 Jan 202392 The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8EJ
Received 13 Aug 2024The Abingdon Arms, High Street, Beckley, OXON, OX3 9UU
Received 5 Mar 202020 Valley Close, Goring, RG8 0AN
Received 4 Nov 2022Orange Phase Plot 8, Little Martins, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, OX10 0FT
Received 11 Aug 202011 Windsor Crescent, East Hagbourne, OX11 9LY
Received 8 Oct 202047 Church Street, Didcot, OX11 8DG
Received 4 May 2021Land off Cuxham road, Watlngton
Received 9 Dec 2022Aleta, Old London Road, Milton Common, OX9 2JR
Received 22 Apr 2021Corkers Farm, Checkendon, RG8 0UT
Received 28 May 2024226 Fane Drive Berinsfield Wallingford OX10 7QL
Received 11 May 20263 Greenfield Crescent, Wallingford, OX10 0PA
Received 4 Nov 2022Records 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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