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West Oxfordshire District Council
Planning applications.
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for West Oxfordshire District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates4,552Searchable applications
415Recorded as pending
94%Approval rate · 3,184 approved or refused records
179Refused applications
3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Skip to main contentContact planning Street naming and numberingLocal plan Planning and buildingPre-application advice Get advice on your applicationConservation areas Historic buildings and conservationArticle 4 directions Article 4 directions
Council contacts
- Planning enquiries08457111222Council source
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Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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.
Conservation areas50 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areas84 mapped area records0 identified HMO area records; remaining records unclassified
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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.
More application records
- Decided24/02201/HHD
Erection of a self-contained single storey annex ancillary to main dwelling with associated works
Pillar Box Cottage Lew Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2AZ
Received 23 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02202/LBC
Internal and external alterations to replace three steel framed windows on ground floor
The Gables Hackers Lane Churchill Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6NL
Received 22 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02203/FUL
Conversion and extension of existing garage to create a dwelling
The Old Surgery The Sands Milton Under Wychwood Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6ER
Received 23 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02206/FUL
Erection of test building together with associated development.
Whiteways Technical Centre Enstone Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 4EE
Received 23 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02207/NMA
Construction of 99 dwellings (to include 35 affordable homes), garages, estate roads and drainage infrastructure (non-material amendment to allow changes to the roof design on plots 725, 775 and 791, addition of a single storey rear lean too extensions to plots 722, 723, 747, 748, 800 and 801, addition of chimneys to 749 and 799 and change the positioning of parking bays to plots 732 and 733)
Land (E) 429494 (N) 207689 Monahan Way Carterton Oxfordshire
Received 23 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02208/PN56
Conversion of existing agricultural building into dwelling house
The Paddocks New Yatt Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6TE
Received 23 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02209/FUL
Change of use and extension of two traditional agricultural buildings to an office and associated studio (class E)
Land And Building North Of 4 Church Close Ascott Under Wychwood Oxfordshire
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02211/HHD
Formation of a new driveway onto private road including associated engineering operations to reduce existing ground levels (part retrospective)
2 Charlbury Road Fawler Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3AG
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02212/PN42
Erection of replacement rear single storey extension (5m x 2.6m height to eaves/ 2.6m max height)
48 Pensclose Witney Oxfordshire OX28 2EQ
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Withdrawn24/02213/FUL
Formation of two off road parking spaces and associated works including re-adjusting the position of the garden stone wall. Installation of an underground oil tank to the front of dwelling
Star Cottage Meadow Lane Fulbrook Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4BW
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Withdrawn24/02214/LBC
External alterations to include the formation of two off road parking spaces and associated landscaping works including re-adjusting the position of the garden stone wall
Star Cottage Meadow Lane Fulbrook Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4BW
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02215/HHD
Installation of a boiler flue to rear roof slope (Amended Plans and description)
Star Cottage Meadow Lane Fulbrook Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4BW
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02216/LBC
Internal and external alterations to include alterations to the floor levels within the utility room, remedial works to sitting room ceiling to include removal of floorboards to first floor along with installation of new joists, rock wool installation and chip board flooring. Removal of the ground to first floor secondary staircase and alterations to floor layouts. Works to include formation of a boiler room in roof space with external flue to rear roof slope and the addition of a conservation roof light to rear roof. (Amended Plans and description)
Star Cottage Meadow Lane Fulbrook Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4BW
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02218/LBC
Internal alterations to the Wool Barn to include the addition of a partition and doorway to divide the principle first-floor room, along with installation of new floor joists spanning across the tops of the existing tie beams with plasterboard ceiling below and loft floorboards above, creating a new loft storage space (accessed by ladder and hatch) and with the sloping ceilings lined with insulating membrane (Retrospective)
Wysdom Hall 115 High Street Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4RG
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02220/CND
Discharge of conditions 11 (design of Emergency access) and 15 (details of additional car parking and EV charging points) of Planning Permission 23/03180/FUL
Abbott Diabetes Care Range Road Windrush Industrial Park Witney Oxfordshire OX29 0YL
Received 27 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02223/HHD
Replacement single storey side extension, reinstatement of ground floor window to south elevation
Bridewell Farm Wilcote Road North Leigh Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6QN
Received 28 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02224/LBC
Replacement single storey side extension, reinstatement of ground floor window to south elevation
Bridewell Farm Wilcote Road North Leigh Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6QN
Received 28 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02229/FUL
Erection of car port (amended plans).
The Boot Barnard Gate Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6XE
Received 29 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02230/LBC
Internal and external alterations to include the replacement of roof tiles with a natural blue/grey slate roof plus thermal upgrading
Water Lane Cottage Waters Lane Little Tew Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 4JG
Received 29 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02231/CND
Discharge of conditions 4 (surface water drainage scheme) of Planning Permission 21/03631/HHD
14 Park Farm Place Northmoor Witney Oxfordshire OX29 5BF
Received 29 Aug 2024 - Unknown24/02232/SCREEN
Formal request for EIA Screening Opinion. Proposed development of up to 400 dwellings and associated works
Land South And East Peashell Farm Downs Road Curbridge Witney Oxfordshire
Received 29 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02233/FUL
Proposed side extension to existing stables
Moorlands Farm New Yatt Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6TE
Received 30 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02235/CLP
Certificate of Lawfulness (Erection of second floor flat roof extension to rear elevation and internal alterations)
Lilac Cottage 83 Station Road Brize Norton Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3PT
Received 29 Aug 2024 - Decided24/02237/HHD
Replacement windows and front door
44 New Street Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5LJ
Received 28 Aug 2024
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What these statistics cover
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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