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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for West Oxfordshire District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Jun 2022 to 30 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 4 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Unit 25 Woolgate Shopping Centre Witney Oxfordshire OX28 6AR
Received 29 Jul 202416 Windmill Heights North Leigh Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6ZD
Received 29 Jul 2024Land South East Of Stone Place Church Road North Leigh Oxfordshire
Received 29 Jul 2024Colletts Yard Bushey Ground Minster Lovell Oxfordshire OX29 0SW
Received 30 Jul 2024Gilgen Witney Road Finstock Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3DF
Received 30 Jul 202448 High Street Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1TG
Received 31 Jul 2024Common Farm Common Road North Leigh Oxfordshire
Received 31 Jul 202412 Crawley Road Witney Oxfordshire OX28 1HS
Received 1 Aug 202462 The Slade Charlbury Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3SJ
Received 1 Aug 202414 Hill Close Charlbury Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3SY
Received 1 Aug 2024Green Rise Ledwell Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 7AN
Received 2 Aug 2024Grange Cottage Burford Road Brize Norton Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3NN
Received 2 Aug 2024White Spring House Shipton Road Milton Under Wychwood Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6JS
Received 2 Aug 202415 Talbot Fields Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2AB
Received 5 Aug 2024Shepherds Gaze West End Chadlington Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3NJ
Received 5 Aug 20243 Sturt Road Charlbury Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3EP
Received 5 Aug 2024Cotsway Church Street Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2NA
Received 5 Aug 2024St Marys Church Swinbrook Oxfordshire OX18 4DY
Received 5 Aug 2024Bridge House Bridge Street Shilton Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4AA
Received 5 Aug 202414 New Street Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5LJ
Received 6 Aug 2024Pummys Cottage 57 Sutton Lane Sutton Witney Oxfordshire OX29 5RY
Received 7 Aug 2024Newland Nursing Home 50 Newland Witney Oxfordshire OX28 3JG
Received 7 Aug 202414 Pound Field Road Aston Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2FR
Received 7 Aug 20243 Alderley Close Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3QP
Received 7 Aug 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 West 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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