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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
12,215 approved · 1,194 refused · 932 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chiltern View, 35 Windmill Road, Towersey, OX9 3QQ
Received 11 Mar 202534 Hart Street, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2AU
Received 19 Feb 2025Duxford House, Mill Road, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3LT
Received 7 Oct 202532 High Street, Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7HN
Received 20 May 2025124 Lydalls Road, Didcot, OX11 7EA
Received 28 Jun 20232 Bell Close, Thame, OX9 3AN
Received 30 Jun 2025Le Manoir Aux Quat Saisons, Church Road, Great Milton, OX44 7PD
Received 12 Mar 2025Friends Meeting House, 13 Castle Street, Wallingford, OX10 8DL
Received 30 Apr 2024Littlethorpe, Cleeve Road, Goring, RG8 9BJ
Received 21 Sept 2025Field Farm, Shirburn Road, Lewknor, OX49 5RR
Received 20 Dec 2019Uk A E A, Culham Science Centre, near Clifton Hampden, OX14 3DB
Received 1 Mar 2019Ash Court, High Street, Whitchurch on Thames, Oxon, RG8 7ER
Received 19 Feb 2021The Old Vicarage, Church Lane, Shiplake Cross, RG9 4BS
Received 23 Jun 20261 Rose Tree Cottages, Road Running Through Stoke Row, Stoke Row, RG9 5PN
Received 19 Aug 202066 Beech Road, Chinnor, OX39 4RD
Received 23 Apr 2021Breach Farm, Breach Farm Barn, Wheatley Road, Stanton St John, OX33 1FG
Received 16 May 202511 Cromwell Road, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1JH
Received 7 Jun 2021Hairoun, Icknield Road, Goring, RG8 0DG
Received 15 Dec 202099 High Street, Wheatley, OX33 1XP
Received 18 Nov 202027 Station Road, Cholsey, OX10 9PT
Received 30 Aug 20236 Chibnall Close Chalgrove Oxford OX44 7SD
Received 18 May 2026Cromwell Lodge 8 Thames Street Wallingford OX10 0HD
Received 8 Oct 20265 Elton Crescent, Wheatley, OX33 1UZ
Received 13 Oct 20203 Cherwell Close, Didcot, OX11 7UF
Received 28 Jan 2020Records 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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