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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9,550 approved · 889 refused · 1,020 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
2 Hutchcombe Farm Close, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9HG
Received 10 Mar 2026Land to the West of Great Western Park, (Valley Park), Didcot, Oxfordshire
Received 11 Oct 2022Prospect Cottage, Prospect Road, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9HT
Received 20 Mar 201930 Hiskins Wantage OX12 9HU
Received 16 Jun 202611 Crabtree Lane, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4HS
Received 18 Mar 2024The Stone House, Baulking, Faringdon, SN7 7QE
Received 27 Sept 2023Hanney Nurseries, Steventon Road, East Hanney, OX12 0HS
Received 10 May 2021West View Cottage, Church Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5DX
Received 18 Jun 2018adjacent to 10a Dibleys, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PT
Received 6 Jul 201741 Fawkner Way, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8FF
Received 17 May 2021RM1A, Valley Park, Didcot
Received 23 May 2025169 Pinnocks Way, Oxford, OX2 9DF
Received 13 Aug 2024Woodland, Bedwells Heath, Boars Hill, OXFORD, OX1 5JE
Received 18 Sept 2017Monks Farm, Townsend, Grove, OX12 0AH
Received 13 Jun 2023Bothy Vineyard, Oakley Park, Frilford heath, Abingdon, OX13 6QW
Received 12 May 2022Dahlia View (Phase 2Tb), Valley Park, Didcot
Received 9 Oct 202555 Hawkins Way, Wootton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6LA
Received 29 Mar 2021Land at Former Froud's Builders Yard, Reading Road, Harwell
Received 6 Oct 202118 Sugworth Lane, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2HY
Received 27 May 2021Pound House, 21 The Causeway, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6SE
Received 24 Apr 202495 Cumnor Hill, Cumnor
Received 12 Jan 2018Apple Cottage, Baulking lane, Baulking, Faringdon, SN7 8NS
Received 3 Dec 201812 Halls Close, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4LU
Received 14 Dec 2022Land to the rear of 10 Halls Close, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4LU
Received 20 Aug 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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