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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
9,605 approved · 894 refused · 1,021 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Buscot & Coleshill Estate Office (National Trust), Coleshill, Swindon, SN6 7PT
Received 9 Aug 2021Land West of Bellingers Garage, Station Road, Grove, OX120DH
Received 25 May 2018The Old Farmhouse, Ginge, Wantage, OX12 8QR
Received 24 Feb 2025Corridor between the A34 Milton Interchange, and the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden
Received 8 Dec 2025O/S 1 JNC Of Foxborough Road, New Road Radley Abingdon, Abingdon, OX14 3AP
Received 13 Feb 202415 Crafts End, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0SA
Received 24 Jun 202539 Bagley Wood Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5LY
Received 7 Oct 2025103 Cumnor Hill, Oxford, OX2 9JR
Received 31 Jan 2023The Hare Inn, Reading Road, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RH
Received 22 Mar 2018Craven Farm Cottage, Upper Common, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RU
Received 23 Jan 201817 Caudwell Close, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7LT
Received 4 Apr 20227 Stone Close, Oxford, OX2 9SQ
Received 16 Sept 202548, 48A & 48B Meadow View Road, Kennington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 5QX
Received 8 Jul 2021Land east of Road 8 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Campus Chilton Didcot OX11 0QX
Received 9 Jun 202616 Diamond Way, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0TT
Received 19 Jan 2024Land to the south of Curie Avenue, and west of Eighth Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DF
Received 30 Oct 2024Cheers Farm, Netherton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5LA
Received 23 May 202478 The Avenue, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5RJ
Received 25 Oct 2023Bigwood Caravan Park, Sugworth Lane, Radley, Oxfordshire
Received 15 Aug 201874 Farm Road, Abingdon, OX14 1NA
Received 14 Feb 202569 Oxford Road, Abingdon, OX14 2AA
Received 25 May 202110 Hart Close, Abingdon, OX14 3XN
Received 7 Dec 2018Brindle Bank, 10 Third Acre Rise, Oxford, OX2 9DA
Received 18 Mar 2024Jasmine Cottage, Littleworth, Faringdon, SN7 8ED
Received 13 Sept 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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