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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.
6,360 approved · 635 refused · 723 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Valley Park Primary School, Valley Park, Didcot
Received 23 Jan 202625 Bridus Mead, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PJ
Received 22 Sept 2021Building B351.15 & B351.28, Fifteenth Street, Harwell Site, Didcot, OX11 0TA
Received 21 Feb 2022Wellshead Cottage, Wellshead, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0HD
Received 19 Jan 2024Laburnum, Churchmere Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AQ
Received 9 Mar 2023Land to the north of Frome Road, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0FD
Received 20 Feb 2025Sheard Studio, Newbury Road, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LG
Received 17 Nov 2022Mill Cottage, Brookside, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0JJ
Received 29 Jul 20211 The Hyde Abingdon OX14 5JG
Received 22 Apr 2026Milton Park, Milton, Abingdon
Received 19 Aug 2022Cumnor, Oxfordshire
Received 23 Nov 2021Linnets, South Street, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PR
Received 15 Aug 2023Rampanes House, High Street, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9UE
Received 11 Jul 2024Land adjacent to the Boneyard, Highworth Road, Faringdon, SN7 7NN
Received 28 Feb 2024The Old Vicarage, Church Way, Sparsholt, Wantage, OX12 9PU
Received 21 Jul 2021April Cottage, 39 Stallpits Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8BG
Received 4 Mar 2022Lady Place, Sutton Courtenay, Oxon, OX14 4FB
Received 27 Aug 2021Grove Technology Park, Grove Business Centre, Downsview Road, Wantage, OX12 9FF
Received 25 Apr 2025The Mill, Mill Lane, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RJ
Received 8 Aug 2022Carswell Home Farm, Carswell Golf Club, Carswell, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8PU
Received 10 Feb 2023Land at Yarnells Hill, Oxford
Received 11 Dec 2025Millway, 131 Netherton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5QW
Received 18 Jul 2023Woodlands, Foxcombe Road, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5DL
Received 21 Apr 2023Land to the east of Horticulture House, Chilton, Oxfordshire
Received 31 Aug 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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