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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3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31 Oxford Hill Witney Oxfordshire OX28 3JU
Received 19 Sept 202447 The Leys Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5HJ
Received 19 Sept 2024Croftdown 34 Corn Street Witney Oxfordshire OX28 6BS
Received 19 Sept 2024Quakers Cottage Jacobs Yard Middle Barton Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 7BY
Received 19 Sept 2024Soho Farmhouse Great Tew Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 4JS
Received 20 Sept 2024Land North Of A4095 At E437664 N211817 North Leigh Oxfordshire
Received 20 Sept 2024Land East Of Monahan Way Carterton Oxfordshire
Received 20 Sept 202426 The Paddocks Enstone Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 4AZ
Received 20 Sept 2024Letterbox Cottage Taston Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3JL
Received 23 Sept 202434 Churchill Road Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5HW
Received 23 Sept 202437 Worton Road Middle Barton Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 7EE
Received 23 Sept 2024138 Abingdon Road Standlake Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7RN
Received 23 Sept 2024Snowshill House The Green Fifield Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6HJ
Received 23 Sept 2024Masonic Hall 20 Church Green Witney Oxfordshire OX28 4AW
Received 23 Sept 2024Abbott Diabetes Care Range Road Windrush Industrial Park Witney Oxfordshire OX29 0YL
Received 23 Sept 2024Land North Of Foxwood Close Aston Bampton Oxfordshire
Received 23 Sept 2024Land (E) 428789 (E) 208512 Burford Road Brize Norton Oxfordshire
Received 20 Sept 2024The Old School House Little Faringdon Lechlade Oxfordshire GL7 3QN
Received 24 Sept 2024Field North Of North Street Farm North Street Aston Bampton Oxfordshire
Received 24 Sept 2024The Granary Filkins Lechlade Oxfordshire GL7 3JJ
Received 25 Sept 2024Blackditch Farm Blackditch Stanton Harcourt Witney Oxfordshire OX29 5SB
Received 25 Sept 2024Blackditch Farm Blackditch Stanton Harcourt Witney Oxfordshire OX29 5SB
Received 25 Sept 2024The Paddocks Duns Tew Road Middle Barton Oxfordshire
Received 9 Oct 2024Land South Of Hit Or Miss Farm Banbury Road Chipping Norton Oxfordshire
Received 25 Sept 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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