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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11,058 approved · 1,114 refused · 872 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Walnut Tree Cottage, High Street, South Moreton, OX11 9AG
Received 26 May 2021Vears Farm House, Brookstones, Sydenham, OX39 4LY
Received 8 Nov 201920 Wykeham Rise, Chinnor, OX39 4PS
Received 2 Sept 2020Warren Farm Holton Oxford OX33 1QD
Received 26 Jun 2026Rupert Cottage, Rupert Close, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2JD
Received 18 May 2021Chilterns End Old Peoples Home 144 Greys Road Henley-on-thames RG9 1QR
Received 29 Jun 2026South Stoke Primary School, The Street, South Stoke, RG8 0JS
Received 5 Jan 202389 Coombe Hill Crescent, Thame, OX9 2EQ
Received 9 Apr 2020Syde, Newnham Hill, RG9 5TJ
Received 24 Apr 2026Land to the north east of Benson to the north of, Watlington Road/The Sands (B4009) and east of Hale Road, Benson
Received 1 Mar 2021Hurst Water Meadows & Old Bridge Meadows, Dorchester on Thames, Oxon
Received 20 Feb 202385A Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, RG4 9JT
Received 9 Mar 2026Land North of A4130, Wallingford Bypass, Wallingford, OX10 9EJ
Received 5 Apr 20234 Daniel Shepherd Avenue, Didcot, OX11 6BS
Received 15 May 2024Paddock rear of Grey House, High Street, Beckley, Oxford, OX3 9UU
Received 19 Sept 2019Holly House, Harpsden Bottom, Harpsden, RG9 4HR
Received 6 Jan 2025CALA Homes Phase 7 (Infrastructure), Land at Willington Down, Didcot
Received 6 Apr 20235 Heron Shaw, Goring, RG8 0AU
Received 21 Jan 2025Culham No 1 Site, Abingdon Road, near Culham, OX14 3DA
Received 3 Jun 2024Site C Pyrton Lane Watlington
Received 8 May 2026131 Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1DJ
Received 16 Jun 2025River Bank, High Street, Long Wittenham, OX14 4QH
Received 24 Jun 2020Watlington Service Station, 11A Couching Street, Watlington, OX49 5QF
Received 7 Nov 2023Park Farm Cottage, Castle Street, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8DW
Received 7 Nov 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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