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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.
6,121 approved · 619 refused · 693 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Bourton End House, Bourton, Swindon, SN6 8JQ
Received 1 Aug 2025Meadow View, Didcot Road, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 6DW
Received 2 Oct 2023126A Olympic Avenue, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SA
Received 31 Aug 2023Land to the north of Frome Road, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0FD
Received 12 Mar 2024Former Seven Acres Nursery Site, Faringdon Road, Stanford in the Vale
Received 17 Apr 2024Building R40, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0FA
Received 30 Mar 2022The Vicarage Broad Street Uffington Faringdon SN7 7RA
Received 9 Sept 2026Land adjacent to Matthew Arnold School, Arnolds Way, Oxford, OX2 9JE
Received 17 Mar 202653 Laburnum Road, Oxford, OX2 9EN
Received 8 Nov 2023Heidelberg Materials UK, Sutton Courtney, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4PW
Received 12 Aug 2024White House, 12 Frilford Road, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6NS
Received 14 Feb 20221 Rectory Lane, Letcombe Bassett, Wantage, OX12 9LN
Received 16 Aug 202119 Harwell Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4BN
Received 6 Feb 2025Peach Cottage, The Green, Fernham, Faringdon, SN7 7NT
Received 14 Feb 2025Priors Hold, 10 Priory Road, Wantage, OX12 9DD
Received 12 Feb 2025Coppice Leaze Farm, Coppice Lane, West Challow, Wantage, OX12 9TJ
Received 24 Jun 2025Wiggins Farm, Goosey, Faringdon, SN7 8PA
Received 10 Mar 2025The White Horse Leisure And Tennis Centre, Audlett Drive, Abingdon, OX14 3PJ
Received 26 Aug 2025Flats 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47 and 49, Meadow Bank, Faringdon, SN7 8EH Flats 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46, Meadow Bank, Faringdon, SN7 8DB Flats 52, 54, 62 and 64, Meadow Bank, Faringdon, SN7 8DD
Received 21 Jul 2026Valley Park, Land to the West of Great Western Park, Didcot (in the parishes of Harwell and Milton)
Received 4 Nov 202418 Kings Avenue, Marcham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6QA
Received 14 May 2024Blandys Cottage, Bassett Road, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9LJ
Received 28 Jul 2025Millbrook Cottage, Berry Lane, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9QJ
Received 14 Mar 202224 Westland Road, Faringdon, SN7 7EY
Received 28 Jan 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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