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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
12,310 approved · 1,205 refused · 939 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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26 Badgers Walk, Lower Shiplake, RG9 3JQ
Received 26 Jul 2023Ladygrove Farm, Abingdon Road, Didcot, OX11 9BS
Received 29 Nov 2024Parsonage Farm Cottage, Berrick Salome, OX10 6JQ
Received 10 Sept 202022 Millington Road, Wallingford, OX10 8FE
Received 2 Jan 2020The Red Lion Hotel, Hart Street, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2AR
Received 30 Apr 2021The New Club, 3 Blenheim Lane, Wheatley, OX33 1NJ
Received 23 Jan 2025Land adjacent Digberry Farm, Digberry Lane, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 6DP
Received 27 Mar 2024Land at Former Didcot A Power Station, Purchas Road, Didcot
Received 28 May 2021Stepping Stones, Stoke Row, RG9 5QL
Received 7 Mar 202340 Acre Field, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, Oxon, RG9 1RL
Received 12 Dec 2019Land at Bayswater Farm Road, near Barton, OX3 8BY
Received 6 Dec 2022Fifield Farmhouse, near Benson, OX10 6HA
Received 5 Nov 2020Towersey Manor, Manor Road, Towersey, OX9 3QR
Received 13 Feb 2025S/O Journeys End, Farm Road, Goring on Thames, RG8 0AA
Received 20 Dec 202327 Mcmullan Close, Wallingford, OX10 0LQ
Received 4 Feb 2025Little St Simons, 13 High Street, Dorchester-On-Thames, OX10 7HH
Received 14 Dec 202019 Cadewell Lane, Benson, Wallingford, OX10 6GH
Received 9 Mar 20264 St Katherines Road, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 1PJ
Received 7 Sept 202058 Rothwells Close, Cholsey, OX10 9LF
Received 23 Oct 202323 Gidley Way, Horspath, OX33 1RQ
Received 22 Sept 2022Thatched Cottage, Chazey Heath, Mapledurham, RG4 7UF
Received 11 Sept 202616 Upper High Street, Thame, OX9 3EX
Received 28 Aug 20244 Blenheim Lane, Wheatley, OX33 1NJ
Received 24 Nov 2025Manor House, 41 High Street, Chinnor, Oxon, OX39 4DJ
Received 5 Mar 2021Records 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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