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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.
6,368 approved · 636 refused · 723 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Wicks House, North Green, West Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0LQ
Received 25 Apr 202381 The Causeway, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6SQ
Received 7 Jun 202111 Broadwater Place, Wantage, OX12 8GR
Received 4 Mar 2026Former Grove Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 1 Feb 2023Corridor between the A34 Milton Interchange and the B4015, north of Clifton Hampden
Received 13 Jan 2026The Thatched Cottage, 4 Oxford Road, Frilford Heath, Abingdon, OX13 5NR
Received 12 Jan 2023Rockwell House, Wallingford Street, Wantage, OX12 8AZ
Received 5 Oct 202111 Sandford Lane, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5RW
Received 10 Jun 2021The Byre, Chilswell Lane Chilswell Farm, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5EP
Received 17 Aug 2021Land north west of Abingdon-on-Thames, Land bound by Wootton Road, Dunmore Road and the A34, Abingdon
Received 13 Mar 20234 Cedar Road, Oxford, OX2 9EB
Received 14 Dec 2023The Poplars Milton Abingdon OX14 4EH
Received 7 May 2026Land East of Kingston Bagpuize
Received 11 Apr 20254 Mathews Way, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6JX
Received 10 Dec 2025Quarry House, Church Street, Shellingford, Faringdon, SN7 7QA
Received 4 Jun 2025Building R8 & R9, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0FA
Received 30 Mar 20228 Owlington Close, Oxford, OX2 9DP
Received 5 May 2022Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, North of Thomson Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QG
Received 10 Apr 20247 Barn Close Denchworth Wantage OX12 0EZ
Received 8 Jul 2026Land at Millets Farm Centre, Kingston Road, Frilford, OX13 5HB
Received 27 Feb 2023Shoals Cottage, Buckland, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8QW
Received 17 Mar 2025Cosenors House, 15 Abbey Close, Abingdon, OX14 3JD
Received 17 Jan 2022Wagon And Horses, Faringdon Road, Southmoor, Abingdon, OX13 5BG
Received 2 Dec 2021Land of Mallins Lane, Fernham, Faringdon, SN7 7PR
Received 28 Jul 2021Records 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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