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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.
6,545 approved · 650 refused · 738 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 2021 to 1 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Sutton Road, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4ET
Received 23 Mar 202224 North Quay, Abingdon, OX14 5RY
Received 19 Mar 2026Brook House, West Street, Sparsholt, Wantage, OX12 9PS
Received 10 Apr 2024St Andrew's Church, Main Street, Wantage, OX12 9JS
Received 13 Nov 2025North Abingdon, Land North of Twelve Acre Drive, Abingdon, Abingdon
Received 17 Jan 20241 Evenlode Park, Abingdon, OX14 3SZ
Received 25 Jun 202139A Steventon Road, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4JX
Received 2 Aug 2024Behind 5 Lower Radley Park, Lower Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3AU
Received 7 Jun 202219 Joyces Road, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HT
Received 12 Jul 2023The Glebe Road Running Through Wytham Wytham Oxford OX2 8QN
Received 2 Sept 2026Milton Hill, Milton Heights, Milton, OX14 4DR
Received 12 May 202313 Chapelwick Close, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8EF
Received 24 May 202280 Cumnor Hill Oxford OX2 9HU
Received 24 Aug 2026Foxhollow, Church Lane, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4JS
Received 13 Feb 2025Hanney Nurseries, Steventon Road, East Hanney, OX12 0HS
Received 10 Jun 2021P6 CC5 Former Grove Airfield, Grove, Wantage
Received 10 Aug 2023Agents Cottage, White Barn, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5HH
Received 24 Dec 2021101 Ock Street, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 5DQ
Received 19 Feb 202685 Meadow View Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5QX
Received 18 Jun 2024Holborn House, Holborn Hill, Letcombe Bassett, Wantage, OX12 9LR
Received 29 Oct 2021Oak Barn, Eaton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5PR
Received 12 Nov 2021Lady Place Estate, Lady Place, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX144FB
Received 17 Sept 2021165 Southern Bypass Oxford OX2 0LN
Received 24 Aug 20268 The Glebe, West Challow, Wantage, OX12 9TW
Received 20 Dec 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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