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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9,730 approved · 908 refused · 1,030 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
2 The Paddocks, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6FU
Received 23 Sept 2024Sand & Gravel Pit, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4PP
Received 22 Jun 2018Fairview, Faringdon Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QY
Received 14 Aug 2023European Space Agency Ecsat, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0FD
Received 8 Feb 20215 Kiln Close, Stanford in the Vale, SN7 8FJ
Received 15 Feb 2022Bowyer Arms, Foxborough Road, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 3AE
Received 14 Jul 2017Pound House, Church Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PY
Received 19 May 2021Denchworth House, Denchworth, Wantage, OX12 0DX
Received 15 Oct 2018Former Rogers Concrete, Sandshill, Faringdon, SN7 7PQ
Received 10 Apr 2025Princes Manor Farm, Church Lane, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0HA
Received 29 Jan 2024Rose Cottage, Gainfield, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QH
Received 19 Apr 202214 Elm Road, Faringdon, SN7 7EJ
Received 17 Nov 20212 Gainfield Cottage, Gainfield, Buckland, FARINGDON, SN7 8QH
Received 26 Oct 201742 Victoria Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1DQ
Received 16 Sept 2021Land on the A423 Southern Bypass, between Hinksey Hill Interchange and, Kennington Roundabout
Received 11 Oct 20231 Harcourt Way, Wantage, OX12 7DA
Received 11 Oct 20214 Vicarage Hill, East Challow, Wantage, OX12 9RR
Received 12 Dec 2022Pendlewood, Cothill Road, Cothill, Abingdon, OX13 6QQ
Received 26 Jun 2018Wootton Business Park, Besselsleigh Road, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6FD
Received 15 Aug 202227 Bigwood Park, Sugworth Lane, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 2LL
Received 19 Aug 20222 Stowford Cottages, Faringdon Road, Shippon, Abingdon, OX13 6LN
Received 19 May 2022Invermay, 4 Tatham Road, Abingdon, OX14 1QD
Received 1 Mar 2024154 Cumnor Hill, Oxford, OX2 9PJ
Received 18 Mar 202134 Montagu Road, Botley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9AH
Received 27 Feb 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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