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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
10,764 approved · 1,089 refused · 859 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
81 Oxford Road, Garsington, OX44 9AD
Received 6 Jun 2023Hammer Cottage, 34 Hammer Lane, Warborough, OX10 7DJ
Received 28 Feb 2024Waitrose Ltd, Greyhound Lane, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 3ZD
Received 18 Jul 2025Braziers Park College, Ipsden, OX10 6AN
Received 17 Feb 2025Willingtons Down Farm Abingdon Road Didcot OX11 9BT
Received 1 Sept 2026Tetsworth CP School, 15 High Street, Tetsworth, OX9 7AB
Received 1 May 2025Aston Tirrold and Aston Upthorpe Village Hall, Thorpe Street, Aston Upthorpe, OX11 9EQ
Received 9 Sept 2025Thames Farm, Reading Road, Shiplake, RG9 3PH
Received 4 Apr 202433 Wykeham Rise, Chinnor, OX39 4PS
Received 6 Mar 2023The Old Dairy and Former Farm Office, Blounts Farm, Blounts Court Road, Sonning Common, RG4 9PA
Received 10 Oct 2019Land to the west of Windmill Road, Thame
Received 22 Sept 202533-35 High Street, Dorchester on Thames, OX10 7HN
Received 30 Jun 202520 St Johns Road, Wallingford, OX10 9AQ
Received 20 Mar 2020Sycamores, South Stoke, RG8 0JJ
Received 6 Jun 20255 Blenheim Road Horspath Oxford OX33 1RY
Received 9 Sept 202620 Market Place, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2AH
Received 13 Mar 20247 Clapcot Way Wallingford OX10 8HS
Received 11 Sept 202665 and 67 Edinburgh Drive, Didcot, OX11 7HT
Received 14 Jan 2020White Gates, Station Road, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3JS
Received 22 Jan 202625 Peppard Road, Sonning Common, RG4 9SS
Received 4 Mar 202660 Blacklands Road, Benson, OX10 6NP
Received 12 Apr 2021O/S 37 Elvendon Road, Goring on Thames, RG8 0DP
Received 20 Dec 2023Stable Cottage, High Street, Culham, OX14 4NA
Received 4 Aug 2025Sonning Quarry, Playhatch Road, Sonning Eye, RG4 6TX
Received 3 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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