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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3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Shipton Leys High Street Shipton Under Wychwood Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6DG
Received 16 Feb 2026Caravan Park Merryweather Farm Hook Norton Road Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5TE
Received 16 Feb 2026Play Area Windmill Road North Leigh Oxfordshire
Received 16 Feb 2026East View Meadow Lane Fulbrook Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4BS
Received 16 Feb 20265 Corbett Road Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3LG
Received 16 Feb 20263 Church View Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2NE
Received 16 Feb 2026Stones Old House 74 High Street Standlake Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7RT
Received 17 Feb 2026Dodges Cottage Broadwell Lechlade Oxfordshire GL7 3QS
Received 17 Feb 2026Old School House Hook Norton Road Great Rollright Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5SA
Received 17 Feb 2026Manor Farm Little Rollright Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5QA
Received 17 Feb 2026Elmdene Milton Road Shipton Under Wychwood Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 6BD
Received 18 Feb 2026Dellfield 90 Brize Norton Road Minster Lovell Witney Oxfordshire OX29 0SG
Received 18 Feb 20263 The Homestead Bladon Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1XA
Received 18 Feb 2026Pear Tree Bushey Ground Minster Lovell Witney Oxfordshire OX29 0SW
Received 18 Feb 202627 Butlers Drive Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3QX
Received 18 Feb 2026Land South Of The Paddocks Aston Bampton Oxfordshire
Received 18 Feb 2026Chippings 155 The Hill Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4RE
Received 18 Feb 2026Land East Of Monahan Way Carterton Oxfordshire
Received 18 Feb 2026Culfre Bampton Road Clanfield Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2RG
Received 18 Feb 2026Manor Field House 41B High Street Standlake Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7RH
Received 18 Feb 202663 Barrington Close Witney Oxfordshire OX28 5FJ
Received 18 Feb 2026Lowlands Farm West End Chadlington Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3NJ
Received 18 Feb 2026Workshop At Mill Farm Lower Road Long Hanborough Oxfordshire
Received 19 Feb 2026Pooh Corner South End Great Rollright Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5RR
Received 18 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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