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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.
8,322 approved · 800 refused · 896 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Former Grove Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road
Received 12 Sept 2023Highwell, Warborough Road, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9LE
Received 26 Mar 2025Stonewold, Trinder Road, Wantage, OX12 8EE
Received 1 Mar 20211 Holborn Hill, Letcombe Bassett, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9LU
Received 20 Oct 202535 Ridgeway Close East Hendred Wantage OX12 8GF
Received 13 Jul 2026Land at Grove Road, Grove
Received 12 Aug 2024Land South of Road 5 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0SZ
Received 28 Aug 2026Land to the east of Horticulture House, Chilton, Oxfordshire
Received 21 Dec 2021St Audries Cottage, Church Lane, Dry Sandford, Abingdon, OX13 6JP
Received 22 Aug 2022The Old Farmhouse, Ginge, Wantage, OX12 8QR
Received 15 Mar 2021Tall Trees, 11 Rimes Close, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5AL
Received 13 Mar 20236 Hornsby Fields Harwell Didcot OX11 6GJ
Received 1 Oct 2026Building 3/4, Trident Business Park, Basil Hill Road, Didcot, OX11 7HJ
Received 25 Jan 2019Land known as Lakeview, Baulking Lane, Baulking, Oxon, SN7 8NR
Received 9 Feb 2023Pinewood School, Bourton, Swindon, SN6 8HZ
Received 2 Jan 2019Land adj to Collinsmith Drive, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7PS
Received 12 Jun 2024The Plough Inn, Orchard Lane, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JW
Received 14 Aug 2023Ashbrooke, Kennington Road, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 2SL
Received 10 Oct 2022Rustlings, Milton Hill, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6AB
Received 23 May 202210 Wheelwright Court, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QA
Received 19 Feb 2021Milton United Football Club, Milton Heights,, Potash Lane, OX14 4XB
Received 20 Feb 20241 West St Helen Street, Abingdon, OX14 5BL
Received 12 Apr 202151 Maytree Cottages, Eaton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5JH
Received 31 Jul 2018Chapel Cottage, Main Street, East Hanney, Oxon, OX12 0HX
Received 3 Feb 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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