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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
12,089 approved · 1,182 refused · 928 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Dec 2016 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Chapel Wells, Pishill, RG9 6HJ
Received 23 May 2025The Bungalow, Judds Lane, Tetsworth, OX9 7FA
Received 14 Oct 202461 Oxford Road, Garsington, OX44 9AD
Received 6 Feb 2026Grove House, Fairmile, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 6AD
Received 15 Mar 2024Woodland Known as Withy Copse, off Wyfold Road, Gallowstree Common
Received 15 Jul 202583 Harpsden Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1ED
Received 15 Feb 2023Land to the west of Copson Lane, Stadhampton, OX44 7TZ
Received 18 Dec 2025Godbegot 16 Aylesbury Road Thame OX9 3AW
Received 27 Aug 2026The John Barleycorn, Manor Road, Goring, RG8 9DP
Received 24 Jun 2025Field South of Brook Street, Brook Street, Benson, OX10 6HA
Received 16 Sept 2025Mergh Farm, near Stoke Row, RG9 5PD
Received 17 Sept 202471 Gainsborough Crescent, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1TB
Received 14 Nov 2022The Bungalow, Old London Road, Milton Common, OX9 2JR
Received 2 Jan 20201 Juniper Way, Didcot, OX11 6AA
Received 22 Mar 20241 Red Cross Road, Goring, RG8 9HG
Received 19 Aug 2024Land to the east of Manor Road to the south of Little Croft, Manor Road, Goring on Thames, RG8 9EJ
Received 25 Jun 20255 Bell Lane, Wheatley, OX33 1XY
Received 20 Jun 2019Shillingford Farm House, 8 Wharf Road, Shillingford, Wallingford, OX10 7EW
Received 6 Aug 20191 Elizabeth Close, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1RE
Received 16 Mar 202349 Friday Street, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1AN
Received 7 Nov 2022Cedar Cottage, Kingwood Common, Kingwood, RG9 5NB
Received 20 Feb 2020Harmony, 29 Warren Mead, Thame, OX9 3GD
Received 25 Jun 20193 Lowes Close, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3NG
Received 11 May 202393 Wantage Road, Wallingford, OX10 0LT
Received 11 May 2020Records 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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