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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.
6,571 approved · 651 refused · 743 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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Cottage Farm, Upper Green, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HY
Received 22 Apr 2024Byways, Cothill Road, Cothill, Abingdon, OX13 6QQ
Received 10 Oct 2024St James Road & Selwyn Crescent, Abingdon, OX14 3AH
Received 22 Jan 2024A4130, Milton Heights, Didcot, OX14 4RX
Received 18 Feb 202634 Pinnocks Way, Oxford, OX2 9DG
Received 28 Mar 2025The Millham Cottage The Millham West Hendred Wantage OX12 8RN
Received 26 May 2026The Sycamores Station Yard Steventon Abingdon OX13 6RX
Received 26 May 20262 Packhorse Lane, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6NT
Received 25 Apr 2023College Oak Peachcroft Road Abingdon OX14 2SB
Received 9 Apr 202629 East St Helen's Street, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 5EE
Received 31 Jan 20228 Downlands, Longcot, Faringdon, SN7 7TY
Received 6 Jul 2023Former Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 15 Oct 2024Mellors Of Challow Ltd, Faringdon Road, East Challow, Wantage, OX12 9TE
Received 12 Apr 20241 Pulford Way, Milton, Abingdon, OX13 6GN
Received 1 Jul 202252 South Avenue, Abingdon, OX14 1QR
Received 22 Sept 2021The Wharf, 43 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4NJ
Received 15 Feb 2024Former Grove Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road
Received 9 Dec 2025Thatched Cottage, 13 Newbury Road, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LG
Received 6 Apr 20217 The Pound, Charlton, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 7HN
Received 29 Jun 2021Land adjoining no 16 Yarnells Road, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 0JY
Received 10 May 2021Highfield House, Church Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5DX
Received 17 Jul 2025Ella Kear, The Lynch, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LB
Received 17 Jun 2024Land at White's Farm, Letcombe Bassett, Wantage, OX12 9LW
Received 22 Nov 2022Former Grove Airfield Parcel P3B, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, West of Grove
Received 15 Nov 2021Records 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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