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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.
6,355 approved · 635 refused · 722 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
11 Crabtree Lane, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4HS
Received 18 Oct 2023Woodhaven, Englands Lane, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5JF
Received 20 Oct 202123 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4NJ
Received 13 Mar 202412 Highworth Road, Faringdon, SN7 7EE
Received 19 Sept 20238 Gloucester Place Grove Wantage OX12 0PH
Received 20 Aug 2026Football Pitches, Grove, Wantage
Received 23 Aug 2023Thatched Tavern, Eaton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5JH
Received 21 Mar 202234 Park Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DS
Received 29 Nov 202319 Norman Avenue Abingdon OX14 2HQ
Received 15 Sept 202669 Montagu Road, Oxford, OX2 9AQ
Received 21 Jun 202423 West St Helen Street, Abingdon, OX14 5BL
Received 16 Jul 2024136 Oxford Road, Abingdon, OX14 2AG
Received 24 Jan 2022Louie Memorial Pavilion, Arnolds Way, Oxford, OX2 9JD
Received 15 Sept 2025Ashlea, The Greenway, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RD
Received 30 Nov 2023O/S 27 and O/S 82 Larkhill Road, Abingdon, OX14 1BL
Received 19 Jun 20239B Market Place, Abingdon, OX14 3HG
Received 23 May 2024Faringdon Business Park, Chowle Farm, Great Coxwell, SN7 7SR
Received 17 Apr 2025The Cottage, South Street, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PR
Received 22 Oct 2021Home Farm, Coleshill Estate, Coleshill, Swindon, SN6 7PT
Received 13 Sept 2022Pinewood School, Bourton, Swindon, SN6 8HZ
Received 29 Jul 202424 Darrell Way, Abingdon, OX14 1HG
Received 26 Feb 202515 The Green, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6RR
Received 26 Sept 2023131 Oxford Road, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 2AB
Received 29 Sept 2021Land at Former Seven Acres Nursery, Faringdon Road, Stanford in the Vale, Oxfordshire
Received 31 Oct 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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