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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.
9,004 approved · 840 refused · 955 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Nov 2017 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pax Hill, Locks Lane, Wantage, OX12 9DB
Received 20 Nov 2023Land south of Curie Avenue and west of Second Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QG
Received 18 Nov 2024Little Mead, Goosey, Faringdon, SN7 8PA
Received 19 May 202538 Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AH
Received 26 Jul 20189 Manor Fields, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JG
Received 18 Jul 2024Sparsholt Manor, Sparsholt Street, Sparsholt, Wantage, OX12 9PT
Received 11 Jan 2021Princess Manor Farm, Kestrel Way, Didcot, OX11 6DU
Received 25 Feb 202697 Howard Cornish Road, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6PU
Received 8 Jan 2024Glenfield, Foxcombe Road, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5DL
Received 24 Nov 2025European Space Agency Ecsat, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0FD
Received 1 Jun 2022Hoofprints, Bessels Way, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9NJ
Received 11 May 2021Wellshead House, Wellshead, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0HD
Received 21 Nov 2017Binning Farms, Great Park, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, OX13 5PZ
Received 23 Feb 201875 Milton Road, Sutton Courtenay, ABINGDON, OX14 4BX
Received 23 Mar 2018Leigh House, High Street, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0ER
Received 20 Nov 202330 Larkhill, Wantage, OX12 8HA
Received 29 Jul 202147 Pinnocks Way, Oxford, OX2 9DD
Received 24 Oct 2024Holmwood, Foxcombe Road, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5DL
Received 5 Nov 2024Waste Court, 76 Bath Street, Abingdon, OX14 1EB
Received 23 Jun 2023Land north west of Abingdon-on-Thames, Land bound by Wootton Road, Dunmore Road and the A34, Abingdon-on-Thames
Received 9 Sept 2021Westwood Country Hotel, Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OX1 5BG
Received 18 Sept 2023Pilgrims Way, The Pilgrim's Way, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9NG
Received 25 Apr 2018Woodgrange, Radley Road, Abingdon, OX14 3SN
Received 27 Nov 20253 Toynbee Close, Oxford, OX2 9HW
Received 28 Apr 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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