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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
9,730 approved · 908 refused · 1,030 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 May 2017 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dahlia View (Phase 2Tb), Valley Park, Didcot
Received 29 Sept 202511 North Avenue, Abingdon, OX14 1QN
Received 17 Sept 2018Abingdon Preparatory School, Kingston Road, Frilford, Abingdon, OX13 5NX
Received 3 Oct 2022Sparsholt House, Sparsholt Street, Sparsholt, Wantage, OX12 9PT
Received 27 Mar 202336 Shelley Close, Abingdon, OX14 1PR
Received 16 Feb 2023Fleetwith, Nottingham Fee, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PG
Received 28 Apr 2023Oldlands Copse, Station Road, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7QD
Received 26 Aug 2021Corn Poppies, Downs Close, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LP
Received 15 Sept 2023Manor Farm, The Green, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0HQ
Received 5 Jan 2026137 Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4HA
Received 15 Jul 2024Barnwell, London Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PB
Received 25 Apr 202593 Bradstocks Way, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4DB
Received 25 Apr 2018Sutton Courtenay Recreation Ground Old Wallingford Way Sutton Courtenay OX14 4AR
Received 7 Aug 2026Bellingers Garage, Station Road, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0DH
Received 17 Nov 2022Jasmine Fields (Phase 2Ta), Valley Park, Didcot
Received 12 Feb 202623 The Hyde, Abingdon, OX14 5JG
Received 20 Nov 2018Standford in the Vale Postcode area
Received 5 Jan 2023Field End, Harcourt Hill, OXFORD, OX2 9AS
Received 13 Jul 201726 High Street Stanford In The Vale Faringdon SN7 8LH
Received 9 Apr 2026Land adjacent to 87 High Street, Milton, OX14 4EJ
Received 23 Feb 2026Botley Baptist Church, Westminster Way, Botley, Oxford, OX2 0LW
Received 22 May 201823 Otters Reach, Kennington, OX1 5QL
Received 18 Jan 202211 Ludbridge Close, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8GB
Received 22 Sept 2025Dunmore Pre-school, Austin Place, Abingdon, OX14 1LX
Received 30 Nov 2023Records 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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