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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Vale of White Horse District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,748 approved · 666 refused · 759 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pulpit House, 1 The Square, Abingdon, OX14 5AR
Received 24 Jun 202228 Windrush Way, Abingdon, OX14 3SX
Received 6 Sept 2021Walnut Cottage, 199 Cothill Road, Dry Sandford, Abingdon, OX13 6JW
Received 17 Oct 202257 & 59 Jubilee Avenue, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RX
Received 13 Feb 202439, East Lockinge, Wantage, OX12 8QD
Received 6 Dec 2024Land to the south of Curie Avenue and west of Eighth Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DF
Received 16 Jul 202415 Road Running Through Wytham Wytham Oxford OX2 8QA
Received 2 Sept 2026Peachcroft Shopping Centre, Unit 3, Peachcroft Road, Abingdon, OX14 2QA
Received 30 Jul 202150 Coxwell Road, Faringdon, SN7 7JX
Received 8 Mar 2024Land West of Abingdon Road, Drayton
Received 15 Apr 2025Land west of Faringdon Road, Stanford in the Vale
Received 20 May 202170 Cumnor Hill, Oxford, OX2 9HU
Received 4 Mar 2021Orchard House, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, SN7 7LW
Received 7 Nov 2023Wellingtonia Lodge, Buckland, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8QW
Received 16 Mar 2021Arborfield, Didcot Road, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 6DH
Received 10 Oct 2022Elms Farm Grove Road Grove Wantage OX12 7PD
Received 24 Jul 2026January Cottage, 35 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4NJ
Received 4 Jul 20223 Ashfield Close, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0HW
Received 7 Sept 2021Cherbury Cottage, Pusey, Faringdon, SN7 8QD
Received 2 Jul 2021Land west of Longfields and north of Howard Cornish Road, Marcham, Oxfordshire, OX13
Received 8 Nov 2025The Stables, Milton Hill, Abingdon, OX14 4DP
Received 9 Nov 202182 Montagu Road, Oxford, OX2 9AQ
Received 6 May 2025Parcel 1Pa (Valley Park), Land to the west of Great Western Park, Didcot
Received 1 Nov 2024157 Whitecross Wootton Abingdon OX13 6BP
Received 17 Apr 2026Records 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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