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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.
9,061 approved · 850 refused · 962 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Phase 5 North East, Parcel Crab Hill, Wantage
Received 16 May 20241 The Quadrant, Abingdon, OX14 3YS
Received 13 Feb 20231 Farm End Grove Wantage OX12 0DD
Received 29 Jun 2026Drayton Road Freestanding, Land Opp Preston Road/Drayton Road, Caldecott, Abingdon, OX14 5PJ
Received 23 Apr 2025Land adjacent to Downs House Farmyard, Ginge, Wantage, OX12 8QS
Received 22 Feb 2021Manor Farm, Silver Lane, West Challow, Wantage, OX12 9TX
Received 9 Oct 2024Land at Crab Hill - Phase 6, Land north of A417 and east of A338, Wantage
Received 19 Aug 2024Kingswell Hotel And Restaurant Reading Road Harwell Didcot OX11 0LZ
Received 3 Jun 202612 Chestnut Road, Botley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9EA
Received 9 Aug 2023170 Wootton Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1JZ
Received 26 Feb 2018Wootton Business Park, Besselsleigh Road, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6FD
Received 23 Aug 2022Marcham Park (formerly Denman College), New Road, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6NW
Received 21 Aug 2025Land to the west of, Didcot B Power Station
Received 5 Sept 2018Manor Farm, Mill Road, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6NZ
Received 27 Jan 20235 Haines Court, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6PN
Received 21 Dec 202318 Yarnells Hill, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 9BD
Received 9 Feb 2024Hazel Mere, Appleton Road, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5EF
Received 11 May 202324 Pearce Drive, Faringdon, SN7 7ND
Received 10 Jun 20247 Collinsmith Drive, Grove, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 7LY
Received 6 Oct 2021Mill House, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JD
Received 6 Aug 2024Pinkhill House, Oxford Road, Eynsham, Witney, OX29 4DA
Received 10 Feb 2022Barton House, East Lockinge, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 8QD
Received 8 Nov 2022Gorse House, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, SN7 7LG
Received 3 Jul 2023Blewbury Mill, Blewbury Road, Blewbury/E & W Hagbourne Parish, OX11 9EB
Received 19 Mar 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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