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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
11,058 approved · 1,114 refused · 872 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Land to rear of 128 Gidley Way, Horspath, OX33 1TD
Received 21 Sept 2020Appletree Cottage, Blounts Court Road, Sonning Common, RG4 9NY
Received 31 Oct 2024Cape Cottage Sydenham Road Sydenham Chinnor OX39 4NE
Received 19 May 2026Thomley Hall Farm House, Menmarsh Road, Worminghall, HP18 9JZ
Received 1 Apr 2021Timbers Cottage, Nuffield, RG9 5SY
Received 18 Mar 2021Flint House, Reading Road, Goring, RG8 0LL
Received 1 Mar 20217 Stonor Green, Watlington, OX49 5PT
Received 20 Dec 2023Barn to the r/o The Little House, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QH
Received 28 Sept 202390 St Andrews Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1PL
Received 6 Sept 201923 Catslip, Nettlebed, RG9 5BL
Received 20 Sept 2019Wheatley Sewage Treatment Works London Road Wheatley Oxford OX33 1JH
Received 21 May 2026May Tree Cottage 18 High Street Long Wittenham Abingdon OX14 4QQ
Received 14 Oct 2026124 Brasenose Road, Didcot, OX11 7BS
Received 26 Jan 202627 Upper High Street, Thame, OX9 3EX
Received 13 Nov 2025Long Wall, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QN
Received 30 Sept 20256 Elbourne Didcot OX11 0BL
Received 23 Sept 2026Lammas House, Common Lane, Binfield Heath, RG9 4JZ
Received 8 Aug 2025Parsonage Farm The Green Marsh Baldon Oxford OX44 9LJ
Received 22 Apr 2026The Old Barn, Kings Farm Lane, near Harpsden, RG9 4JG
Received 16 Jun 2025Haw Farm, Deadmans Lane, Goring Heath, RG8 7RX
Received 10 May 2021Boxtree Cottage, The Street, Ewelme, OX10 6HQ
Received 1 Dec 2023Cedar Lodge Care Home, Eastfield Lane, Whitchurch On Thames, RG8 7EJ
Received 23 Aug 2024(Green Phase) Plot 10, Little Martins, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, OX10 0FT
Received 11 Aug 2020Cadwell Lane, Brightwell Baldwin, OX49 5NU
Received 6 Nov 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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