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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
12,189 approved · 1,191 refused · 931 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land at former Didcot A Power Station, Purchas Road, Didcot
Received 5 Oct 20205 Cuddesdon Road, Horspath, OX33 1JF
Received 19 Feb 202652 Vicarage Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1HU
Received 7 Dec 202311 Exe Close, Didcot, OX11 7XF
Received 18 Mar 2020S/O 1 Holmlea Road, Goring on Thames, RG8 9EX
Received 20 Dec 2023Iden House Bakers Lane Brightwell-cum-sotwell Wallingford OX10 0PY
Received 4 Sept 2026Carmel College, Mongewell, Wallinford, OX10 8BU
Received 21 Jun 2019253 Greys Road, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1QS
Received 7 May 2020Upper Gatehampton House, Gatehampton Road, Goring, RG8 9LT
Received 26 May 2021Wittenham House, Little Wittenham, Abingdon, OX14 4RA
Received 21 Jun 2019Didcot Methodist Church, Broadway, Didcot, OX11 8RQ
Received 18 Oct 2023Land to the rear of 44 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, RG4 9JT
Received 2 Feb 2021The George Hotel, High Street, Dorchester on Thames, Oxon, OX10 7HH
Received 20 Jul 20236 Westwater Way, Didcot, OX11 7SN
Received 30 Oct 2019High View, 102 Gidley Way, Horspath, OX33 1TD
Received 3 Apr 2023Cherryton, Station Road, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3JS
Received 9 Jul 202430 Barlow Close Wheatley Oxford OX33 1NL
Received 28 Jul 202631 Manor Road, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 7JZ
Received 12 Nov 2019Land between Pyrton Lane and Cuxham Road Watlington
Received 20 Apr 202613 Upper High Street, Thame, OX9 3ER
Received 26 Sept 201931 High Street Thame OX9 2AA
Received 23 Jul 2026Cookley Cottage, Crowell, OX39 4RR
Received 6 Mar 2020Spinners, 8 Coates Lane, Cookley Green, RG9 6EE
Received 25 Jul 2024The Rosary, High Street, Beckley, Oxon, OX3 9UU
Received 12 Oct 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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