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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Vale of White Horse District Council. Also known as VOWH.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Vale of White Horse website
9,550 approved · 889 refused · 1,020 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Jul 2017 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
6 Station Yard, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6RX
Received 29 Mar 2021Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd, Station Road, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0DQ
Received 10 Mar 2022Land off Mary Shunn Way, Mary Shunn Way, Wantage, OX12 8GN
Received 12 Mar 202647a High Street, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
Received 12 Feb 2018Upper Mill, Kingstone Winslow, Swindon, SN6 8NG
Received 22 Oct 2025Wicklesham Quarry, Sands Hill, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7PQ
Received 6 Jul 2018Churn Cottage, Churn Farm, Bohams Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9HD
Received 28 Oct 2021Peewit Barn Drayton Road Sutton Courtenay OX14 4HB
Received 11 Jun 20263 Manor Close, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0SS
Received 8 Jun 2018Waitrose Ltd, Abbey Close, ABINGDON, OX14 3HL
Received 26 Jan 2018Gainfield Farmhouse, Gainfield, Buckland, SN7 8QH
Received 13 Jul 2017European Space Agency Ecsat, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0FD
Received 4 Nov 20216 The Croft, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0ED
Received 26 Oct 2021The Pump House, West Hagbourne, Didcot, OX11 0GB
Received 22 Aug 2024Ladygrove Cottage, Drayton road, Abingdon, OX14 5HU
Received 20 Feb 2024Rose Cottage, Church Street, West Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0LW
Received 24 Feb 2023West & East Lockinge
Received 14 Jan 20261A Grove Street, Wantage, OX12 7AB
Received 16 Aug 2018Site Of, 18 Hids Copse Road, Oxford, OX2 9JJ
Received 22 Nov 201825 Lansdowne Road, Dry Sandford, Abingdon, OX13 6EA
Received 16 Jan 2019Cromwell House, 41 High Street, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8NQ
Received 6 Sept 201822 North Hinksey Lane, North Hinksey Village, Oxford, OX2 0NA
Received 23 Feb 20218 Ock Street, Abingdon, OX14 5AP
Received 5 Aug 2024145 Upper Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5LR
Received 28 Jan 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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