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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3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 4 5 Welch Way Witney Oxfordshire OX28 6JH
Received 30 Jan 2026Unit 4 5 Welch Way Witney Oxfordshire OX28 6JH
Received 30 Jan 2026104 Woodstock Road Witney Oxfordshire OX28 1DY
Received 30 Jan 2026Hazel Cottage Hazells Lane Filkins Lechlade Oxfordshire GL7 3HX
Received 2 Feb 2026The Old Stables Butlers Court Farm Main Road Alvescot Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2PU
Received 2 Feb 2026Church Cottage Park Road Combe Witney Oxfordshire OX29 8NA
Received 2 Feb 202612 High Street Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1TF
Received 2 Feb 2026Pheasant Cottage 1 Langley Witney Oxfordshire OX29 9PE
Received 2 Feb 2026St Martins Farmhouse Church Street Bladon Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1RS
Received 2 Feb 202648 Abingdon Road Standlake Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7RQ
Received 3 Feb 2026Langley Farmhouse Langley Witney Oxfordshire OX29 9QD
Received 3 Feb 2026The Old Barn East End Chadlington Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3LX
Received 2 Feb 202632 Youngs Way Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1GU
Received 2 Feb 2026Evelyne Cottage Landells Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2LJ
Received 2 Feb 2026Burford Primary School Priory Lane Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4SG
Received 2 Feb 2026Street Record Riverside Gardens Witney Oxfordshire
Received 2 Feb 20261 Hammett Place Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3JR
Received 3 Feb 2026Belham Hayes Kencot Lechlade Oxfordshire GL7 3QU
Received 3 Feb 202682 Cowells Road Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1GB
Received 3 Feb 20266 High Street Finstock Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3BY
Received 3 Feb 2026Manor Field House 41B High Street Standlake Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7RH
Received 4 Feb 2026Field Farm Church Road North Leigh Witney Oxfordshire OX29 6TX
Received 4 Feb 202633 Holliers Crescent Middle Barton Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 7HE
Received 4 Feb 2026Appletrees Thames Street Charlbury Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3QQ
Received 4 Feb 2026Records 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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