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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3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
52 Milestone Road Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3RG
Received 3 Feb 2025Lower Farm Taynton Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4UH
Received 4 Feb 2025Lower Farm Taynton Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4UH
Received 4 Feb 2025Diomede Cottage 4 Church Street Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5NT
Received 4 Feb 2025ATM 16 Market Place Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1TB
Received 5 Feb 2025Horizon Technology Park Stanton Harcourt Road Eynsham Oxfordshire
Received 5 Feb 20251 Regent Drive Long Hanborough Witney Oxfordshire OX29 8FX
Received 5 Feb 2025Wootton Place Church Street Wootton Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1EA
Received 5 Feb 2025Land To The Rear Of 17 - 18 High Street Chipping Norton Oxfordshire
Received 5 Feb 20259 Youngs Way Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1GU
Received 6 Feb 2025The Old School House Church Road Northmoor Witney Oxfordshire OX29 5SX
Received 6 Feb 2025The Gate House 56 Mill Street Eynsham Witney Oxfordshire OX29 4JU
Received 6 Feb 2025The Old Barn East End Chadlington Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3LX
Received 6 Feb 202510 New Lincoln Meadow Standlake Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7SP
Received 7 Feb 2025Burditch House The Walk Wootton Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1ED
Received 6 Feb 202571 Park Road North Leigh Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6SB
Received 6 Feb 2025Little Faringdon Mill Little Faringdon Lechlade Oxfordshire GL7 3QQ
Received 6 Feb 2025Little Faringdon Mill Little Faringdon Lechlade Oxfordshire GL7 3QQ
Received 6 Feb 2025Corn Close Cottage Charlbury Road Spelsbury Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3JR
Received 7 Feb 2025Little Window Cottage 2 Blacksmiths Court Kingham Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6GE
Received 7 Feb 2025Eynsham Fire Station Station Road Eynsham Witney Oxfordshire OX29 4HX
Received 7 Feb 2025The Croft 81 Brize Norton Road Minster Lovell Witney Oxfordshire OX29 0SG
Received 7 Feb 202515 The Moat Kingham Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6XZ
Received 7 Feb 2025Yew Tree Cottage 60 Station Road Brize Norton Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3QA
Received 7 Feb 2025Records 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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