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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3,005 approved · 179 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Royal Oak High Street Ramsden Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3AU
Received 13 Mar 2026Royal Oak High Street Ramsden Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 3AU
Received 13 Mar 20269 Nash Lane Freeland Witney Oxfordshire OX29 8HS
Received 13 Mar 2026Store And Premises Linch Hill Stanton Harcourt Oxfordshire
Received 13 Mar 2026Three Chimneys Main Street Over Norton Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5PU
Received 16 Mar 2026Street Record Shepard Way Chipping Norton Oxfordshire
Received 16 Mar 2026West End Cottage West End Wootton Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1DL
Received 16 Mar 2026Abberley Farm Lower End Alvescot Bampton Oxfordshire OX18 2QA
Received 16 Mar 2026Cartref 21 Witney Street Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4RX
Received 16 Mar 2026Land And Building At E430573 N216096 Little Langley Leafield Oxfordshire
Received 16 Mar 2026Durhams Farm Chastleton Moreton-In-Marsh Oxfordshire GL56 0SZ
Received 16 Mar 2026104 Pensclose Witney Oxfordshire OX28 2EQ
Received 16 Mar 2026Durhams Farm Chastleton Moreton-In-Marsh Oxfordshire GL56 0SZ
Received 16 Mar 2026Sperrings Witney Lane Leafield Witney Oxfordshire OX29 9PG
Received 17 Mar 20264 The Leaze Barns Lane Burford Oxfordshire OX18 4NE
Received 17 Mar 2026The Meeting House 54 New Street Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5LJ
Received 17 Mar 2026Land (E) 437070(N) 227947 Enstone Road Heythrop Chipping Norton Oxfordshire
Received 17 Mar 2026The Surgery 1 Farm Mill Lane Witney Oxfordshire OX28 4BJ
Received 17 Mar 2026Land Northeast Of 5 Upper Crescent Upper Crescent Minster Lovell Oxfordshire
Received 20 Mar 2026Church End House Church End Great Rollright Chipping Norton Oxfordshire OX7 5RX
Received 17 Mar 202644 Black Bourton Road Carterton Oxfordshire OX18 3HE
Received 18 Mar 202621 Milford Place Wootton Woodstock Oxfordshire OX20 1EN
Received 18 Mar 2026Mulberry House 9 Church Green Witney Oxfordshire OX28 4AZ
Received 18 Mar 2026Moorland Centre 24 Dark Lane Witney Oxfordshire OX28 6LE
Received 16 Mar 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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