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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
11,721 approved · 1,157 refused · 908 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lavender Cottage, Coldharbour, Goring Heath, RG8 7SY
Received 12 Dec 20253 Middle Farm Close, Chinnor, OX39 4GP
Received 15 May 2020Railway Cottages, Reading Road, Goring, RG8 0ES
Received 12 Mar 2020The Old Farmhouse, Road Running Through Britwell Salome, Britwell Salome, OX49 5LG
Received 2 Sept 2025Garages at Holloway Farm, near Great Milton, Oxfordshire, OX33 1GX
Received 19 Nov 2024Stonor Park, Stonor, RG9 6HF
Received 12 Feb 2021Age Concern Drop-in-centre, 33 High Street, Watlington, OX49 5PZ
Received 21 Mar 202310 Wykeham Rise, CHINNOR, Oxon, OX39 4PS
Received 8 Oct 2020Wentworth, Ipsden Heath, Ipsden, OX10 6QP
Received 25 May 2023The Lyndons, 20 Rotherfield Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1NN
Received 24 Jan 2024Nuffield Court, Nuffield, RG9 5RU
Received 27 Oct 2020Benwells Farm Barn, Bix, RG9 4RT
Received 2 Nov 2023Kimmeridge, Waterstock, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JT
Received 15 Aug 2023Duffield, Tokers Green Lane, Kidmore End, RG4 9AY
Received 22 Sept 20236-8 Market Place, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2AN
Received 18 Aug 2025Land north west of the Bewley Homes Residential Development, Hale Road, Benson
Received 7 Jan 2026Pinewood, Stoke Row Road, Peppard Common, RG9 5JD
Received 21 Nov 2023Williams Jet Tenders, Vogue Business Park, Tower Road, Wallingford, OX10 7LN
Received 11 Jan 2021Knapp Wood Farm, Hill Road, near Lewknor, OX49 5RT
Received 24 May 20241 Keydale Road Wheatley Oxford OX33 1NS
Received 29 Jun 202624 Gravett Close Henley-on-Thames RG9 1XW
Received 10 Apr 2026Brightwell Manor, Brightwell Street, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, OX10 0RT
Received 12 Jun 2024Revival, 33B High Street, Benson, OX10 6RP
Received 21 May 202411 Warner Crescent, Didcot, OX11 8JY
Received 3 Jul 2023Records 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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