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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.
6,169 approved · 625 refused · 697 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX
Received 23 Jan 2023Leylands, Lechlade Road, Faringdon, SN7 8AQ
Received 29 Mar 2026107 Cumnor Hill Oxford OX2 9JR
Received 10 Jul 2026Shellingford Quarry, Multi Aggregate Ltd, Shellingford Cross Roads, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HE
Received 25 Jan 2024Land at Monks Farm, Townsend, Grove, OX12 0AH
Received 16 May 2024Land south of Curie Avenue and west of Second Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QG
Received 15 Aug 2025The Old Farmyard, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, SN7 7LG
Received 17 Sept 2024Wellclose, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QN
Received 2 Oct 2023Land at Monks Farm, Grove, OX12 0AH
Received 15 Nov 202439 Wootton Village, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5HP
Received 29 Nov 2022Cress Cottage Stowhill Childrey Wantage OX12 9XQ
Received 18 Aug 2026Thatcher Cottage Church Road Blewbury Didcot OX11 9PY
Received 26 Aug 2026Little Cleve, South Street, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PR
Received 1 Aug 202415 Barnett Road, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6AJ
Received 4 Nov 2021Coigne Cottage, 21 Victoria Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DQ
Received 2 Apr 202420 Sandleigh Road, Dry Sandford, Abingdon, OX13 6DP
Received 28 May 2025143 Oxford Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2AD
Received 17 Aug 2023Lane End, 2 Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OX1 5BQ
Received 3 Sept 2025Orchard Dene House, Watts Lane, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PS
Received 10 Jul 2023101 Upper Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5LW
Received 4 Sept 2024Lapwing Barn, 95A Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4HB
Received 5 Jul 202121 Montagu Road, Oxford, OX2 9AH
Received 15 Jul 2021Abingdon Science Park, Barton Lane, Abingdon, OX14 3NB
Received 14 Mar 202416 Home Close Wootton Abingdon OX13 6DB
Received 29 Jun 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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