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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3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Street Record Spelsbury Road Charlbury Oxfordshire
Received 25 Jul 2025Unit 4 Kipling Court Brize Norton Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 1PQ
Received 28 Jul 202532 - 34 Mill Street Eynsham Witney Oxfordshire OX29 4JS
Received 28 Jul 2025Downham Cottage Asthall Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4HW
Received 28 Jul 2025Long Meadow Church Street Charlbury Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3PP
Received 28 Jul 2025Estelle Manor North Leigh Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6PN
Received 28 Jul 2025Quartern The Heath Milton Under Wychwood Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6LG
Received 25 Jul 2025Heath Barn Bruern Road Milton Under Wychwood Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6LL
Received 28 Jul 2025Coombe Brook Lodge Taynton Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4UB
Received 28 Jul 2025The Stone House Church Street Charlbury Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3PP
Received 28 Jul 2025Churchill Heath Farm Kingham Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6UJ
Received 29 Jul 202517 Holford Road Witney Oxfordshire OX28 5NG
Received 29 Jul 202570 Oxlease Witney Oxfordshire OX28 3QU
Received 28 Jul 2025Car Park Rear Of 58 West End Witney Oxfordshire
Received 29 Jul 2025Manor Farm Little Rollright Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5QA
Received 30 Jul 202529 Oxford Road Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1UN
Received 30 Jul 2025The Barn Manor Farm Enstone Road Little Tew Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 4HZ
Received 30 Jul 2025The Barn Manor Farm Enstone Road Little Tew Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 4HZ
Received 30 Jul 2025The Haven 2 Newland Street Eynsham Witney Oxfordshire OX29 4JZ
Received 30 Jul 2025No Oven Cottage Chipping Norton Road Little Tew Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 4JF
Received 30 Jul 2025Street Record Rye Grass Woodstock Oxfordshire
Received 30 Jul 2025Land And Building (E) 439518 (N) 226211 Enstone Airfield North Banbury Road Enstone Oxfordshire
Received 30 Jul 2025The Crawley Inn Foxburrow Lane Crawley Witney Oxfordshire OX29 9TS
Received 30 Jul 2025Lower Church Farm Little Faringdon Oxfordshire
Received 31 Jul 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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