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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.
5,570 approved · 569 refused · 627 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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17 Whitelock Road, Abingdon, OX14 1NZ
Received 19 Feb 2024Post Box 16m From Unit 2, Uffington Trading Estate On Unnamed Road Road Running West From Oldland Copse Uffington Faringdon SN7 7QD
Received 30 Jun 202625 Market Place, Faringdon, SN7 7HU
Received 4 Apr 2022Land North of Dunmore Road, Abingdon, OX14 1PU
Received 8 Mar 2024Box Cottage, Broadbrook Lane, Sparsholt, Wantage, OX12 9PJ
Received 10 Feb 2025Land at Monks Farm, Grove, OX12 0AH
Received 15 Oct 202413A Market Place, Abingdon, OX14 3HA
Received 17 Jun 2024Overford Farm, Wytham, Oxford, OX2 8QN
Received 24 Mar 2023Chandlers, Halls Lane, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0HJ
Received 7 Mar 2022Bridle Cottage, Bridle Path, Charney Bassett, Wantage, OX12 0EW
Received 4 Sept 2025Pound House, 21 The Causeway, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6SE
Received 17 Jun 2024(site Of Former) Westbrook Farm, Westbrook Street, Didcot, OX11 9QB
Received 19 Apr 2022The Smallholding adj to Bowling Alley, High Street, East Hendred, Wantage
Received 5 Sept 2022Fieldside Farm, Westbrook Street, Blewbury, OX11 9QB
Received 3 Feb 2026Hinton Manor, Hinton Waldrist, Faringdon, SN7 8SA
Received 1 Dec 2021Land South of the A415, Marcham
Received 22 Dec 2023Stocks, Chapel Lane, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PQ
Received 12 Sept 2025Southern edge of the field on the right of Alden Lane, Hollow Way, Upton
Received 19 Jan 2022Lavender Walk (Phase 2Tc), Valley Park, Didcot
Received 8 Jan 2026The Paddocks Park Lane Appleton Abingdon OX13 5JT
Received 12 Aug 2026Oday Quarry (Sutton Wick Quarry), Oday Hill, Sutton Wick, Abingdon, OX14 4AA
Received 9 Mar 202347 Raleigh Park Road, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 9AZ
Received 15 Dec 2021109 Oxford Road, Abingdon, OX14 2AB
Received 4 Jun 202459 Anna Pavlova Close, Abingdon, OX14 1TF
Received 7 Mar 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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