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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.
8,301 approved · 798 refused · 896 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Apr 2018 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Kingston Lisle House, Kingston Lisle Park, Kingston Lisle, OX12 9QQ
Received 5 Feb 202482 Norreys Road Cumnor Oxford OX2 9PU
Received 24 Jul 2026Land Adjacent to Existing Security Guard Office, Fourteenth Street, Didcot, OX11 0GD
Received 17 Sept 202521 Portway Close, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8FQ
Received 10 May 2023Ashen Copse, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5HG
Received 9 Jul 20215 Holborn Hill, Letcombe Bassett, Wantage, OX12 9LU
Received 12 Aug 2024The Barns, Hanney Road, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6AW
Received 16 Dec 2021Albert Park, Abingdon, OX14 1DS
Received 23 Dec 2025101 Whitecross, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6BS
Received 16 Mar 202655 High Street, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8NQ
Received 25 Aug 20256 St Michaels Avenue, Abingdon, OX14 1DR
Received 20 Jul 2021Trinity House, Conduit Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DB
Received 23 Feb 2024Land to the north of the A420 and east of Fernham Gate, Faringdon
Received 16 Apr 201814 The Green, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4HZ
Received 2 Aug 2022Wantage Motorist Centre, 1 Hans Avenue, Wantage, OX12 7DB
Received 3 May 2022Ascari House, 23 High Street, Steventon, OX13 6RZ
Received 1 Aug 202437 Hedgemead Avenue, Abingdon, OX14 2NW
Received 2 Jan 2019Yatsden, Foxcombe Road, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5DG
Received 9 Nov 2018Buckland C Of E Primary School Summerside Buckland Faringdon SN7 8RB
Received 1 May 2026Land at Radley Road, Abingdon, OX14 3RY
Received 15 Oct 2024Fieldside, London Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9NY
Received 18 May 2022134 Cumnor Hill, Oxfordshire, OX2 9PH
Received 20 Jun 20252 Yew Tree Court, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5PQ
Received 26 May 202245 Coleshill, Swindon, SN6 7PT
Received 1 Aug 2025Records 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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