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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Vale of White Horse District Council. Also known as VOWH.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Vale of White Horse website
9,370 approved · 870 refused · 993 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Aug 2017 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lane End Cottage, The Huts, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QU
Received 25 Apr 2025Site of Greensands Reading Road East Hendred Wantage OX12 8JE
Received 28 Aug 202623 Whitfield, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8FL
Received 20 May 2021Fern Hill Place, Berry Close, 26 Coxwell Road, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7FL
Received 12 Apr 202112 Buscot, Faringdon, SN7 8DA
Received 21 Jul 2021190 - 192 Park Drive, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4SE
Received 15 May 2025Parcel P1, Land to the West of Great Western Park, Valley Park, Didcot
Received 19 May 2022Building R1, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0FA
Received 30 Mar 20224 Priory Mead, Longcot, Faringdon, SN7 7TJ
Received 15 Aug 2022Land in front of 2 and 2A Oxford Square, Watchfield, Swindon, SN6 8TB
Received 25 Mar 201983 Radley Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3PN
Received 16 Aug 201715 Brook Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AH
Received 23 Aug 202411 Manor Grove, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5QY
Received 15 Sept 202127 Yarnells Hill, North Hinksey, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9BD
Received 15 May 20236 Yarnells Road, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 0JY
Received 7 Jun 2021Agricultural Barn, South of Bradfield Barn, Old Mans Lane, Grove
Received 18 Jan 2018Brookside, 15 Betty Lane, Oxford, OX1 5BW
Received 16 Mar 2021Dunstan Lodge, South Street, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JY
Received 28 Jul 2025Land between Uffington and Kingston Lisle
Received 16 Feb 20262 Eagles, Faringdon, SN7 7DT
Received 2 Jul 20184 St Anne's Mews, Wantage, OX12 8FG
Received 27 Nov 2023Phase P5, P6 CC5 and P7 of Former Grove Airfield, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road
Received 16 May 2025Home Farm, Home Farm, Bourton, Swindon, SN6 8JF
Received 15 Feb 2023Apple Tree Cottage, 21 Faringdon Road, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8NN
Received 5 Sept 2018Records 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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