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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.
6,387 approved · 638 refused · 726 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 May 2021 to 1 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bay Tree House, The Green, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0HQ
Received 30 Jun 2025Farthington 20 Milton Lane Steventon Abingdon OX13 6SA
Received 23 Jun 2026Willow Tree House, The Green, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0HQ
Received 5 Oct 2021The Old Vicarage Road Between Idstone Road And Ashbury Ashbury Swindon SN6 8LZ
Received 1 Jun 2026Towersey, Skeats Bush, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LH
Received 20 Jan 2022Gallery House, Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4NJ
Received 24 Jul 20238 Crabtree Road, Oxford, OX2 9DT
Received 29 Jul 2025Millers Cottage, High Street, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5DU
Received 23 Feb 202341 School Lane Coleshill Swindon SN6 7PR
Received 5 May 2026OS 15 Northcourt Walk, Abingdon, OX14 2EJ
Received 14 Dec 2023Church Farm, Fernham Road, Longcot, Faringdon
Received 8 Jun 2022Manor Farmhouse, 12 The Green, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4HZ
Received 19 Dec 2023121 Mayfield Avenue, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7NE
Received 23 Jul 2021North Abingdon, Land North of Twelve Acre Drive, Abingdon, Abingdon
Received 1 Nov 2022Hanney Nurseries, Steventon Road, East Hanney, OX12 0HS
Received 10 Jun 202185 Dibleys, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PU
Received 3 Oct 20233 Fettiplace Close, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5LQ
Received 11 Oct 20235 Eason Drive, Abingdon, OX14 3YD
Received 3 Oct 2025Bonds Cottage, Main Street, Grove, OX12 7JT
Received 1 Nov 2021Smelting Yard, Station Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8GG
Received 19 Apr 2022O/S 86 Whitehorns Way, Abingdon, OX14 4LQ
Received 23 Feb 2024Land North of Shrivenham, Highworth Road, Shrivenham
Received 8 Nov 2023The John Krebs Field Station, Wytham Woods, Wytham, Oxford, OX2 8QJ
Received 5 Apr 20225L Bromsgrove Faringdon SN7 7JF
Received 11 Aug 2026Records 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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