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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3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mill House Hotel Station Road Kingham Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6UH
Received 17 Oct 2024Land At Little Rissington Airfield Fifield Oxfordshire
Received 17 Oct 2024Mill House Hotel Station Road Kingham Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6UH
Received 17 Oct 2024Manor Farm Eynsham Road Cassington Witney Oxfordshire OX29 4DL
Received 18 Oct 2024Shores House Shores Green Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6UU
Received 18 Oct 2024Grenna House Pudlicote Lane Chilson Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3HU
Received 18 Oct 2024Garden House West Street Kingham Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6YQ
Received 18 Oct 2024Leafield Technical Centre Langley Witney Oxfordshire OX29 9EF
Received 18 Oct 2024Juniper House 3A Burford Road Witney Oxfordshire OX28 6DW
Received 18 Oct 20244 Albion Place Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5BT
Received 21 Oct 2024Unit C Newman Court Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7LY
Received 21 Oct 202442 Taynton Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4UH
Received 21 Oct 202444 Witney Road Long Hanborough Witney Oxfordshire OX29 8BJ
Received 21 Oct 20241 Rye Grass Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1NB
Received 21 Oct 2024Methodist Chapel Chapel Lane Enstone Oxfordshire OX7 4LT
Received 21 Oct 2024Lark House West End Kingham Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6YL
Received 22 Oct 20244 Malthouse Court Witney Lane Leafield Witney Oxfordshire OX29 9AA
Received 23 Oct 2024Mo Tighe Chapel House Grounds Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5SZ
Received 4 Nov 202416 Oxford Street Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1TS
Received 4 Nov 2024Land East Of Isabelle Spencer Way Witney Oxfordshire
Received 23 Oct 2024Oakdene Wilcote Lane Ramsden Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3BA
Received 23 Oct 202412 High Street Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5AD
Received 23 Oct 2024Bridge House Bridge Street Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2HA
Received 24 Oct 2024Shilton Edge Farm Shilton Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4AP
Received 24 Oct 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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