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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Vale of White Horse District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,606 approved · 500 refused · 479 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Aug 2022 to 1 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
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Land on Blackbird Lane, Milton, Oxfordshire, OX14 4EH
Received 15 Mar 20238 Home Close Wootton Abingdon OX13 6DB
Received 18 Sept 2026Land East of The Holloway Road, Road Through Great Coxwell
Received 30 Jul 2026The Cleve South Street Blewbury Didcot OX11 9PR
Received 16 Apr 2026School View, The Cleave, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0EN
Received 13 Oct 2025Denman College New Road Marcham Abingdon OX13 6NW
Received 1 Jun 202686 Kennington Road Kennington Oxford OX1 5PE
Received 18 May 2026Land adjacent to West House, Church Hill, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0SH
Received 6 Oct 2025Land adjacent to Middle Green Farm, off The Green, Baulking
Received 1 Nov 2022Brook Cottage, Bassett Road, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9LJ
Received 31 Jul 2025Land to the west of Great Western Park (Valley Park), Didcot
Received 27 Nov 20234A and 15A Oxford Road, Oxford, OX2 9NN
Received 6 Oct 2025Former Grove Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 3 Dec 20254 Longcot Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8AL
Received 17 Mar 2025Pidnell Farm, Radcot Road, Faringdon, SN7 8DY
Received 26 Sept 2025Corridor between the A34 Milton Interchange and the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden including part of the A4130 east of the A34 Milton Interchange, land between Didcot and the former Didcot A Power Station and the Great Western Mainline, land to the north of Didcot where it crosses a private railway sidings and the River Thames to the west of Appleford-on-Thames before joining the A415 west of Culham Station, land to the south of Culham Science Centre through to a connection with the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden
Received 21 Apr 20263 Church Path, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8LS
Received 3 Mar 202612A Barnards Way, Wantage, OX12 7EA
Received 6 Nov 2023The Old Vicarage, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9JP
Received 22 Mar 2024Westmill Solar Farm, Watchfield, Swindon, SN6 8TH
Received 14 Sept 2023Priory Cottage, 127 The Causeway, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6SJ
Received 9 Apr 2024Appletree Cottage, Cat Street, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JT
Received 9 Jun 2023Grange Farm, Cleyfields, Bourton, Swindon, SN6 8HU
Received 19 Jan 202415 Baker Road, Abingdon, OX14 5LW
Received 9 Aug 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Vale of White Horse 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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