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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.
6,051 approved · 614 refused · 689 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jul 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Red House Farm, Eynsham Road, Farmoor, Oxford, OX2 9NH
Received 9 Jul 20243 Fernham Road, Faringdon, SN7 7JY
Received 4 Dec 20257 Norreys Road Cumnor Oxford OX2 9PT
Received 17 Apr 202619 Grundy Crescent, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5PS
Received 25 Mar 2025Radley Village Hall Gooseacre Radley Abingdon OX14 3BL
Received 21 May 2026Arnhem Cottage Buckland SN7 8QW
Received 2 Sept 2026St Mary's Church, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7LW
Received 30 Jan 2023Land south of Diamond Synchrotron, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0FD
Received 4 Oct 202187 High Street, Milton, Oxon, OX14 4EJ
Received 25 Jul 2023Land to the south of Curie Avenue & west of Eighth Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DF
Received 23 Dec 2024Pull Croft, 53 High Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AT
Received 27 Nov 202412 Beech Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9EE
Received 14 Aug 2025Appletree Farm, Littleworth, Faringdon, SN7 8ED
Received 12 Apr 2022Manor Farm, 6 Wootton Village, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5JL
Received 7 Feb 2022Land to South of Icknield Way, Lark Hill, Wantage, OX12 8PL
Received 16 Dec 2025Land at Millbrook House, High Street, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4EL
Received 14 Aug 2023Road adjacent to Parcel P5, Grove, Wantage
Received 1 Feb 202327 Coxwell Road, Faringdon, SN7 7EB
Received 3 Sept 202130 West Way Square, Oxford, OX2 9TJ
Received 17 Feb 2023Land to the north west of Radley, Radley
Received 25 Feb 202557 The Causeway, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6SE
Received 8 Nov 2021The Longhouse, Fyfield Wick, Abingdon, OX13 5ND
Received 15 Dec 2023Manor Farm, Church Lane, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6SN
Received 22 Dec 2025Victoria Cross Gallery, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AS
Received 14 May 2025Records 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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