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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 Vale of White Horse District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,831 approved · 510 refused · 515 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Former Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 9 Dec 202520A Mill Street, Wantage, OX12 9AQ
Received 24 Feb 2026Stanford in the Vale Area
Received 20 Sept 20224 Mathews Way, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6JX
Received 26 Mar 202617 & 19 Withington Court, Abingdon, OX14 3QA
Received 8 Jun 20231 Little London Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, OX13 5GH
Received 9 Feb 202415 Manor Gardens, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7JE
Received 5 Oct 2025Hendred House High Street East Hendred Wantage OX12 8JZ
Received 21 Apr 2026Webbs Cottage, Witney Road, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5AN
Received 1 Aug 2022Cothill Fen SSSI
Received 12 May 2025Wood House Bedwells Heath Boars Hill OX1 5JE
Received 12 May 2026Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX
Received 23 Jan 2023The Clock House, 18 Grove Street, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 7AA
Received 18 Nov 2022Land known as Lakeview, Baulking Lane, Oxfordshire, SN7 8NR
Received 8 Apr 2025Red Gable, 84 Appleton Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QH
Received 21 Aug 20239 Folly View Crescent, Faringdon, SN7 7DJ
Received 17 Jun 2025Land South of the A415, Marcham
Received 24 Oct 2024Horslees House, Great Coxwell, Faringdon, SN7 7NG
Received 25 Jul 2023A34 Lodge Hill Interchange, Abingdon
Received 15 Nov 202423 Bridge Street, Abingdon, OX14 3HN
Received 19 Jul 2023Lark Rise, Oxford Road, Frilford, Abingdon, OX13 5NP
Received 11 Jul 2024Mill Farm Faringdon Road Stanford In The Vale Faringdon SN7 8NP
Received 7 Apr 20261 Trajan Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8FJ
Received 20 May 2025Hinksey Court, West Way, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9LZ
Received 5 Sept 2022Records 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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