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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
12,236 approved · 1,196 refused · 935 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 Oxford Road, Thame, OX9 2AJ
Received 12 Feb 202525 Glebe Road, Didcot, OX11 8PL
Received 7 Jul 2021Leys Cottage, Old Bix Road, Bix, RG9 6BY
Received 11 Sept 20205 Meadside, Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7JX
Received 26 Apr 202312 St Andrews Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1HP
Received 15 Sept 2023Suntrap, Manor Road, Towersey, OX9 3QR
Received 11 Oct 2024The Orchard, 17 Rotherfield Road, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1NR
Received 1 Apr 202153 Woodlands Road, Sonning Common, RG4 9TD
Received 13 Oct 2023Home Farm House, Holton, OX33 1QA
Received 19 Mar 2025Land at 60-68 Broadway, Didcot, OX11 8AE
Received 15 Jul 2025The Ridges, Abingdon Road, Clifton Hampden, OX14 3E
Received 21 Jul 2025Woodlands Cottage, 9 Stonor Village, Stonor, RG9 6HE
Received 27 Feb 2020Sunnyside, Oxford Road, Tiddington, OX9 2LH
Received 13 Jul 202052 Market Place, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2AG
Received 16 Dec 2024Stockwells Cottage, Thorpe Street, Aston Upthorpe, OX11 9EG
Received 10 Jul 20251 Bella Vista, Path Hill, Goring Heath, RG8 7RF
Received 9 May 201923 Market Place, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, Oxon, RG9 2AA
Received 7 Oct 20196A Buttermarket Thame OX9 3EW
Received 29 Jul 2026The Old Farmhouse, Britwell Salome, OX49 5LG
Received 30 Jul 201915 Winterbrook Lane, Wallingford, OX10 9EH
Received 28 Jul 202519A Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2BA
Received 9 Apr 202441 Onslow Drive Thame OX9 3YY
Received 7 Apr 2026Little Sparrows, Sonning Common
Received 29 Sept 2022Constantia, Wyfold Lane, Peppard Common, RG9 5LR
Received 9 Dec 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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