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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
11,243 approved · 1,126 refused · 885 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Maples, Dysons Wood, Kidmore End, RG4 9EY
Received 11 Jun 202442 Evenlode Drive, Berinsfield, OX10 7NY
Received 15 Apr 2020Foxglove House, The Osiers, Drayton St Leonard, OX10 7AX
Received 28 Sept 202091 High Street, Dorchester-On-Thames, OX10 7HP
Received 1 Oct 2020Plot 2 - Land between The Old Forge and New Farm Bungalow, Pyrton, OX49 5AP
Received 18 Jan 2024Daf Trucks Ltd, Eastern Bypass, Thame, OX9 3FB
Received 6 Jul 202169 West Chiltern, Woodcote, RG8 0SG
Received 13 May 2024Land at Wallingford Road/Reading Road, Wallingford, OX10 9EG
Received 9 Dec 201919 Wantage Road, Didcot, OX11 0BS
Received 25 Sept 2019The Chestnuts, Lower Shiplake
Received 19 Sept 201920 Greys Road, Henley-On-Thames, Oxon, RG9 1RY
Received 8 Sept 2020Beech Cottage, Burcot, OX14 3DJ
Received 16 Dec 2025Home Farm Cottage, Mill Lane, Shiplake, Oxon, RG9 4BJ
Received 24 Oct 2024Pippin, Plough Lane, Shiplake Cross, RG9 4DD
Received 18 Sept 2023Cane End, RG9 4 Postcode area
Received 5 Jan 2023High Meadow, Kiln Lane, Binfield Heath, RG9 4EJ
Received 2 Feb 20234 The Laurels, Stadhampton, OX44 7XP
Received 23 Feb 2024Lower Town Farm, High Street, Clifton Hampden, Abingdon, OX14 3EQ
Received 23 Jul 2019Land west of Hale Road, Benson
Received 9 Apr 2024Abbey Farm, North Weston
Received 23 Oct 2025Land north of Littleworth Road, Benson
Received 23 Jul 2025Orchard Barn, Oxford Road, Clifton Hampden, OX14 3EW
Received 29 Oct 2025Oakwood 22 Rotherfield Road Henley-on-Thames RG9 1NN
Received 18 Aug 2026Orchard House, Aston Upthorpe, OX11 9EF
Received 16 Dec 2022Records 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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