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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
9,755 approved · 908 refused · 1,031 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
55 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9BS
Received 6 Jan 202223 Marigold Crescent, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 6GB
Received 22 Oct 2018208 Kennington Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5PG
Received 18 Aug 2017Rose Cottage, Gaveston Road, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0HP
Received 6 Sept 2022Land off Sheepstead Road, Marcham
Received 21 Jul 20228 Gloucester Place Grove Wantage OX12 0PH
Received 9 Oct 2026Former Grove Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 30 Oct 201724 Alexander Close, Abingdon, OX14 1XA
Received 8 Feb 2021Lodge Farm House, Road Between High Street And Godfreys Farm, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9XA
Received 19 Nov 2018Rose Cottage, Church Street, West Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0LW
Received 6 Oct 2022Warrick Cottage, Broadway, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LA
Received 20 Mar 202453 Upper Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5LJ
Received 22 Jun 2021Maytree Cottage, 51 Eaton Road, Appleton, ABINGDON, OX13 5JH
Received 26 May 201736B Robsart Place, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QT
Received 19 Mar 2024100 Milton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4BT
Received 2 Nov 2022Sungrove, Downs Close, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LP
Received 20 Oct 2021Weatherblades, Main Road, Fyfield, Abingdon, OX13 5LN
Received 21 Feb 202496 Cumnor Hill, Oxford, OX2 9HY
Received 29 Apr 2024Manor House, Buckland
Received 5 Mar 2019Land to the west of Red House Farm, Botley, Oxfordshire, OX2 9ND
Received 24 Aug 2022OS 50 & OS 77 Hawkins Way, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6LA
Received 15 Jul 2025The Gate House, Reading Road, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9HP
Received 16 Jul 2018The Old Rectory, Rectory Lane, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5AT
Received 25 Feb 2022The Undercroft, Red Copse Lane, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5ER
Received 20 Aug 2025Records 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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