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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.
6,134 approved · 621 refused · 694 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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The Rowans, Manor Road, Wantage, OX12 8DW
Received 1 May 2025Zaremba, Broad Street, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RA
Received 9 Jun 2022Land adjoining The Coach House, Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OX1 5BD
Received 26 Jun 202428 Folly View Road, Faringdon, SN7 7DH
Received 20 Feb 2024St Marys Convent, Denchworth Road, Wantage, OX12 9AU
Received 22 Sept 2022Corridor between the A34 Milton Interchange and the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden including part of the A4130 east of the A34 Milton Interchange, land between Didcot and the former Didcot A Power Station and the Great Western Mainline, land to the north of Didcot where it crosses a private railway sidings and the River Thames to the west of Appleford-on-Thames before joining the A415 west of Culham Station, land to the south of Culham Science Centre through to a connection with the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden
Received 28 May 2026Stockham Farm Cottage, Denchworth Road, Wantage, OX12 9BE
Received 3 Feb 2022Post Office Cottage, Chapel Lane, Ashbury, Swindon, SN6 8LS
Received 22 Jun 2022Building B150, Harwell Campus, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0TR
Received 7 Jul 202529 East St Helen Street, Abingdon, OX14 5EE
Received 24 Nov 2022Stanford Park House, Park Lane, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8PF
Received 2 Feb 2023Hanson Quarry Products Europe, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4PJ
Received 6 Apr 2023Appleford-on-Thames
Received 12 Jun 2025Elms Farm, Grove Road, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7PD
Received 1 Aug 20223 Longcot Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8AL
Received 28 Apr 2023The Longhouse, Fyfield Wick, Abingdon, OX13 5ND
Received 4 Apr 2022The Engine Shed, The Old Works Yard, Ardington, Wantage, OX12 8PT
Received 8 Nov 2021Appletree Farm, Littleworth, Faringdon, SN7 8ED
Received 12 Jul 2023Manor Farm Barn, Kingston Lisle, Wantage, OX12 9QX
Received 30 Jan 2026Pinsgrove, Chilswell Lane, Oxford, OX1 5BN
Received 25 Nov 202117 The Green, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AE
Received 2 Aug 2021The Stone House, Baulking, Faringdon, SN7 7QE
Received 23 Mar 2026Site Of 1, Sugworth Crescent, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 2JR
Received 2 Apr 202453 St Gabriel's, Wantage, OX12 8FJ
Received 31 Jul 2023Records 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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