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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.
6,315 approved · 631 refused · 715 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Rose Cottage, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QS
Received 6 Nov 2024O/S 25 Cholswell Road, Abingdon, OX13 6HW
Received 21 Feb 2024Land to rear of, 21 Mill Road, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6NZ
Received 8 Nov 20214 Lyon Close, Abingdon, OX14 1PT
Received 26 Mar 2025Tigin Ban High Street Harwell OX11 0EU
Received 14 May 2026Halt House, 4 Beeching Close, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9JR
Received 23 Sept 202218 Gravel Walk, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7JW
Received 8 Nov 2021Sunnybank, High Street, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9JE
Received 24 May 20249 Joyce Way, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6GA
Received 1 Apr 202573 Grove Street Wantage OX12 7AG
Received 11 May 202694 Larkhill Road, Abingdon, OX14 1BJ
Received 1 Sept 2025Oakfield House, Badswell Lane, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5JN
Received 24 May 20222 Asquith Park, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4FL
Received 23 Dec 20219 Stanford Drive, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1EW
Received 1 Sept 2023East Wilden, Brook Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AH
Received 7 Feb 2024Abbey Meadow, Swimming Pool Abbey Close Abingdon OX14 3JD
Received 30 Jun 2026Glenwood, Orchard Road, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QS
Received 16 Mar 2023Walnut Tree Cottage, 12 Chapel Hill, Watchfield, Swindon, SN6 8TA
Received 27 Mar 2024Rectory House, Sparsholt Street, Sparsholt, Oxon, OX12 9PJ
Received 2 Sept 2022Former agricultural field adjacent to Cottage Road and Farin
Received 29 Jan 20264 Woodcroft, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5NH
Received 21 Mar 2025Land south of Thomson Avenue and East of Eighth Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QG
Received 4 Aug 202125 High Street, Drayton, Oxon, OX14 4JW
Received 27 Sept 2024Dormer Cottage, 25 Abingdon Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QN
Received 7 Mar 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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