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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.
4,917 approved · 520 refused · 526 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Building 150 Thomson Avenue Harwell Oxford Didcot OX11 0GD
Received 4 Aug 2026The Old Maltings, Vineyard, Abingdon, OX14 3UG
Received 2 Sept 2025The Thatches, Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OX1 5BQ
Received 24 Mar 2026Stanford in the Vale Primary School, High Street, Stanford in the Vale, SN7 8LH
Received 19 Jan 20261 Ford Lane, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JX
Received 20 Feb 202517 Exbourne Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DH
Received 17 Apr 2023Little Thatch, Broad Street, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RA
Received 19 May 2025Peach Cottage, The Green, Fernham, Faringdon, SN7 7NT
Received 8 Aug 2022Land South of Park Road, Faringdon, SN7 7PL
Received 29 Jul 20247 Russet Drive, Milton Hill, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4BF
Received 13 Dec 2023Land at Steventon Storage Depot, Hanney Road, Abingdon, OX13 6AP
Received 13 May 2024Richmond Villages, South Street, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9RG
Received 20 Feb 2026RM1b Phase 1, Valley Park, Didcot
Received 6 Mar 202511 Corneville Road, Drayton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4HN
Received 25 Apr 2023Ashbrook House Westbrook Street Blewbury Didcot OX11 9QA
Received 14 Jul 2026Land at Grove Road, Grove, OX12 7PD
Received 2 May 20239 Hope Way Oxford OX2 9RZ
Received 2 Apr 2026Upwood Park, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, OX13 5QE
Received 23 Feb 2026Amhurst, Horn Lane, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LD
Received 11 Sept 2023Cedar Glen, Harris's Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5EH
Received 1 Aug 2022Chestnuts, School Lane, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4EQ
Received 29 Nov 2023Land north west of Abingdon-on-Thames, Land bound by Wootton Road, Dunmore Road and the A34, Abingdon
Received 15 Apr 2024St Michael's, Church Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PY
Received 25 Jul 2025Wrens Hobbit, Betty Lane, Oxford, OX1 5BW
Received 1 Aug 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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