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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
11,765 approved · 1,161 refused · 909 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
3 Brookside, Thame, OX9 3DE
Received 27 Jun 2023Land to the north east of Didcot, Didcot
Received 4 Apr 2023OS 50 Queen Street Henley-on-Thames RG9 1AP
Received 15 May 20263 The Limes, Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7LL
Received 18 Apr 2024Cherri House, 13 Croft Villas, WALLINGFORD, Oxon, OX10 0HW
Received 10 May 2024Courtyard Cottage, 3 Treverne Courtyard, High Street, Chinnor, OX39 4FD
Received 10 Aug 2020Manor Farm House, Cuxham, OX49 5NG
Received 20 Feb 202015 Queen Street, Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7HR
Received 22 Jan 2024Land adjacent to the Bottle And Glass Inn, Bones Lane, Binfield Heath, RG9 4JT
Received 12 Apr 2021Badgers, New Close Farm Road, Henton, OX39 4AP
Received 9 Dec 2022Greenways, Didcot Road, Long Wittenham, OX14 4PZ
Received 7 Dec 202240 Greys Hill, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1SJ
Received 12 Apr 2021The Walled Garden, Bell Lane, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2HR
Received 14 May 2023Crabtree Corner, Ipsden
Received 13 Sept 2019Bridge End House, 2 High Street, Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7JT
Received 23 Dec 2019Land Adjacent To Cowley Substation, near Cowley, OX44 9N
Received 13 Oct 2023Mackney Lodge, Mackney Lane, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, OX10 0SJ
Received 11 Mar 2021Willow Tree, High Road, Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, OX10 0QR
Received 15 Jun 2021The Malt House, Berrick Salome, OX10 6JN
Received 17 Oct 20231 Droveside, Cholsey, OX10 9PU
Received 14 Jan 2020Nuthatch Grange Road Between Whitehall Lane And Judges Road Checkendon Reading RG8 0SU
Received 9 Jul 2026Flintview, 1 Fir Close, Ipsden, OX10 6AH
Received 15 Feb 2021Former Henley Joinery Site, Farm Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1EJ
Received 2 Oct 2023Existing play area Blue Mountain Estate, Wallingford
Received 2 Feb 2026Records 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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