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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
11,450 approved · 1,139 refused · 898 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Heathercroft, Elvendon Road, Goring, RG8 0DT
Received 2 Nov 2020Former Site Of Georgetown Filling Station, Broadway, Didcot, OX11 8SD
Received 2 Jul 2024Culham Science Centre Nursery & Preschool, Culham Science Centre, near Clifton Hampden, OX14 3DB
Received 11 Sept 2023Blewbury Mill, Blewbury, Oxfordshire, OX11 9EB
Received 18 Mar 2020Trees, Wood Lane, Kidmore End, RG4 9BB
Received 31 Mar 202382 Avon House, Wellington Street, Oxfordshire, Thame, OX9 3BN
Received 19 Nov 2024Former stores, Land West of The Priory, Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire, OX49 5LB
Received 28 Nov 2022Benson C of E Primary School, Oxford Road, Benson, OX10 6LX
Received 1 Oct 2023Chauntsingers, Cleeve Road, Goring, RG8 9BJ
Received 14 Aug 2025Land adjacent to Red Cow House, Stoke Row, RG9 5NY
Received 11 Dec 2020Sue Ryder Home For Palliative Care, Joyce Grove, Nettlebed, RG9 5DF
Received 10 Mar 2026Memorial Park, Reades Lane, Sonning Common, RG4 9LL
Received 9 Nov 2023Rectory Farm, Waterperry, OX33 1LB
Received 11 Oct 2024Greenacres, Elizabeth Road, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1RJ
Received 5 Nov 2019Beavers Lodge, Mill Road, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3LN
Received 17 Jul 2024Parsonage Farm House, 7 Main Road, East Hagbourne, OX11 9LN
Received 1 Sept 2025The Smith Centre, Fairmile, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6AB
Received 14 Apr 2025The Old Laundry House, Main Street, Mapledurham Village, RG4 7TP
Received 19 Aug 2020The Cottage, Harpsden, RG9 4AP
Received 2 Jul 2019Nettlebed Sewage Works, Lower Common Woods, near Nettlebed, RG9 5BN
Received 27 Oct 202070 Norreys Road, Didcot, OX11 0AN
Received 7 Jul 202026 Thameside, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2LJ
Received 19 Jul 2019Former Henley Youth Centre site, 1 Deanfield Avenue, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1UE
Received 13 Aug 201955 Meadow Way, Didcot, OX11 0AX
Received 10 Feb 2021Records 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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