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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.
6,668 approved · 657 refused · 753 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Old Bakery, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5EP
Received 16 Sept 2024Village Hall, Barrow Close, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6TY
Received 29 Apr 202514 Butts Road, Faringdon, SN7 7PG
Received 16 Mar 2023Stanford in the Vale Area
Received 19 Jul 2022208 The Avenue, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5RN
Received 30 Sept 202146A Park Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DG
Received 19 Feb 2024Sunny Side Cottage Didcot Road Harwell Didcot OX11 6DN
Received 23 Sept 2026The Cedars, Reading Road, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LU
Received 20 Feb 2023Hills Yard, Buscot, Faringdon, SN7 8BY
Received 13 Mar 2024Home Farm, Church Street, Shellingford, Faringdon, SN7 7QA
Received 10 Oct 20231 Bowyer Road, Abingdon, OX14 2EW
Received 9 May 2022Former Seven Acres Nursery Site, Faringdon Road, Stanford in the Vale
Received 21 Aug 202460 Wasbrough Avenue, Wantage, OX12 9BQ
Received 19 May 2025Abners, Church Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PY
Received 9 Feb 202212 Sweetmans Road, Oxford, OX2 9BA
Received 5 Jun 2024Wootton Business Park, Besselsleigh Road, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6FD
Received 23 Jun 2023To the side of 1 Mackenzie Avenue, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4LS
Received 2 Feb 2022The Priory, Priory Road, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9DF
Received 9 May 2025Horse & Harrow, Main Street, West Hagbourne, OX11 0NB
Received 22 Feb 202382 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9BX
Received 7 Jun 2021O/S 59 Northcourt Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1NR
Received 18 Jul 202315 Fairthorne Way, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8EB
Received 24 Apr 2025Elms Farm, Oxford Road, Wantage, OX12 7PD
Received 4 Apr 202215 Grahame Close, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9QE
Received 21 Jul 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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