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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
11,328 approved · 1,130 refused · 890 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Middle Road, Stanton St John, OX33 1HD
Received 10 Mar 2023Beechwood Cottage, Checkendon, RG8 0UN
Received 21 Sept 2020Bricken, Upperton, OX49 5NY
Received 20 Dec 2019New Manor Farm Bungalow, Elsfield Way, Marston, OX2 8ER
Received 20 Mar 202552 Vicarage Road, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 1HU
Received 7 Dec 2023Corridor between A34 Milton Interchange & B4015, Oxfordshire
Received 21 Nov 2025Opposite Adwell House Gardens, Adwell, OX9 7DH
Received 2 Jan 2020Field near 96 New Road, Merelands, East Hagbourne, OX11 9JZ
Received 4 Sept 2020Forge Cottage, Fullers Road, Aston Upthorpe, OX11 9EL
Received 27 May 202560B and 60C High Street, Chalgrove, OX44 7SS
Received 16 Jan 2024Brewery Mews, 21 Market Place, Henley on Thames, RG9 2AA
Received 22 Nov 2024South Moreton Primary School High Street South Moreton OX11 9AG
Received 2 Jul 202680 High Street Dorchester-on-Thames OX10 7HP
Received 11 Jun 2026Glendale Barn, Glendale Farm, Northend
Received 20 Nov 2023Land to South West of Cowley Substation, Nuneham Courtenay, OX44 9PA
Received 16 Nov 2020Waterperry House, Waterperry Gardens, Waterperry, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ
Received 18 Nov 2022Chalk House, Nuffield, RG9 5SU
Received 27 Aug 2020Withy Windle Cook Lane North Stoke Wallingford OX10 6BG
Received 22 Jul 2026The Cruke, 36 High Street, Thame, OX9 2AA
Received 19 Nov 2024Anchor Cottage, 7 Cuxham Road, Watlington, Oxon, OX49 5JW
Received 22 Oct 202053 Littleworth Road, Benson, OX10 6LY
Received 30 Jun 2023Fairfield, Roke, OX10 6JD
Received 12 Jul 2023Howberrywood Farm, Newnham Hill, RG9 5TU
Received 22 Nov 2022Manor Farm, Main Street, Forest Hill, OX33 1EB
Received 21 Nov 2019Records 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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