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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.
5,529 approved · 567 refused · 619 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Dec 2021 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Cucumber House, Buscot & Coleshill, Coleshill, Near Swindon, SN6 7PT
Received 29 Jun 20231 Brumcombe Lane, Bayworth, Abingdon, OX13 6QU
Received 7 May 20256 Lammas Land Drayton Abingdon OX14 4GG
Received 1 Apr 20261 Simpsons Way, Kennington, Oxfordshire, OX1 5RZ
Received 9 Oct 202416 Bushy Close, Oxford, OX2 9SH
Received 10 Feb 20225 Ock Street, Abingdon, OX14 5AL
Received 3 Oct 2023Boundary House, 69 Oxford Road, Abingdon, OX14 2AA
Received 29 Oct 2025Rockley Farm House, 16 Appleton Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QH
Received 1 Sept 202537 Hedgemead Avenue, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 2NW
Received 8 Apr 2024Milton Cottage, School Lane, Milton, OX14 4EH
Received 1 Feb 202418 Westbrook House, The Annexe, Gravel Walk, Faringdon, SN7 7JW
Received 11 Sept 202359 High Street, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4JW
Received 10 Mar 20233 Pioneer Road, Faringdon, SN7 7BU
Received 19 Oct 2022In between 56 & 58 John Morris Road, Abingdon, OX14 5HW
Received 22 Oct 2024Bellingers Garage, Station Road, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0DH
Received 13 Oct 2025Former Rogers Concrete, Sandshill, Faringdon, SN7 7PQ
Received 3 Apr 2025Victoria Cross Gallery, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AS
Received 3 Oct 2022Sparsholt Sewage Treatment Works, West Street, Sparsholt, Oxfordshire, OX12 9PR
Received 7 Jan 2026Grange Court, Abingdon Science Park, Barton Lane, Abingdon, OX14 3NB
Received 14 Mar 2023Acorn House, 17A Highworth Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8BH
Received 1 Mar 2022Land South of the A415, Marcham
Received 9 Oct 20248 Owlington Close, Oxford, OX2 9DP
Received 19 Dec 2023Spectrum, Wyndyke Furlong, Abingdon, OX14 1DZ
Received 27 Sept 2023Redrow Homes Blaise Park, Milton, OX13 6GH
Received 13 Mar 2024Records 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 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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