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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.
9,008 approved · 842 refused · 956 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Maslina, Reading Road, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9JJ
Received 20 Dec 2023Hitchcopse Farm, Cothill Road, Cothill, Abingdon, OX13 6QQ
Received 24 Mar 2022Chilton House, amd North of Dene Hollow, Chilton, Nr Didcot, Oxfordshire
Received 18 Sept 20185 Stallpits Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8BG
Received 28 Jul 2021Church of St Andrew, South Street, Letcombe Regis, Oxfordshire, OX12 9JS
Received 25 Apr 2024Former Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 11 Jun 2024Kingsgate, Chapel Square, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JN
Received 4 Dec 2024Near Brook Cottage, Bassett Road, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9LJ
Received 28 Nov 2025Cutts End Cottage, Appleton Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QH
Received 4 Nov 2021Manor Barn, The Meadows, Lower Bourton, Swindon, SN6 8HX
Received 9 Jul 2025Colina, Main Street, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RZ
Received 3 Mar 2021The Manor, 68 High Street, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4JR
Received 16 Oct 2024Roffen, Main Street, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7HT
Received 12 Feb 2024Barn to rear of 95 Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4HB
Received 14 Mar 2018Land Adjacent to Matthew Arnold School, Arnolds Way, Oxford
Received 31 Jul 202447 Raleigh Park Road, North Hinksey, Oxfordshire, OX2 9AZ
Received 24 Sept 201842 Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AW
Received 29 Mar 20192 Potteries Lane, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0TZ
Received 20 Oct 202182 Westminster Way, Oxford, OX2 0LP
Received 7 May 2021Rainsford Cottage, Halls Lane, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0HJ
Received 7 Jun 2023Stanton House, Stanton Road, Oxford, OX2 9AY
Received 16 Mar 2021Milestone House Longcot Road Shrivenham Swindon SN6 8AL
Received 30 Sept 202615A High Street, Abingdon, OX14 5BB
Received 8 Aug 2025109 Abingdon Road, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4HL
Received 2 Jul 2021Records 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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