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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.
5,407 approved · 558 refused · 607 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Jan 2022 to 1 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Bridge Farm Quarry, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4PP
Received 20 Apr 2023Telecommunications site, off A34, Wytham Road, Oxford, OX2 8QA
Received 5 Jun 2025Land to the west of Didcot, between the A4130 and B4493 Want, Didcot
Received 10 Nov 20227 Oxford Road, Farmoor, Oxford, OX2 9NN
Received 23 Dec 2024Morland House, 33 Bath Street, Abingdon, OX14 3RH
Received 11 Mar 2026Cedar House, Sandy Lane, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5HN
Received 2 Mar 202321 Old Farm Close Abingdon OX14 3XU
Received 9 Jul 202630 Eaton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5JH
Received 13 Jun 20248 Palmers, Wantage, OX12 7HB
Received 1 Aug 2023Corridor 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 27 Aug 20262 Brook Farm Cottages, The Cleave, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0EN
Received 12 Jul 20245 Clifton Drive, Abingdon, OX14 1ET
Received 29 Jun 2023Hendred House, High Street, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JZ
Received 7 Jul 2022Coppice Leaze Farm, Coppice Lane, West Challow, Wantage, OX12 9TJ
Received 22 Jan 2024Warrick Cottage, Broadway, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LA
Received 3 Oct 2022Furzewick Farm, Manor Road, Wantage, OX12 8NG
Received 10 Apr 20244 Milton Gate, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4FP
Received 28 Mar 2022Bay Cottage, Buckland, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8QR
Received 6 Nov 2025127 Southern Bypass, Oxford, OX2 0LJ
Received 3 May 2022Land to rear of 10 Halls Close, Drayton, OX14 4LU
Received 23 Nov 202338 Fairthorne Way, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8EA
Received 24 Feb 2022Lay by Reading Road, Wantage
Received 19 Mar 2024Haugh House, Church Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5DX
Received 29 Jan 202430 East St Helen Street, Abingdon, OX14 5EB
Received 7 Feb 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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