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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
9,797 approved · 908 refused · 1,033 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
38 Austin Place, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1LX
Received 17 May 20178 Elizabeth Avenue, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 2NP
Received 4 Apr 2022Land to the east of Sheepstead Road, North of Harding Way
Received 1 Jun 2023Former agricultural field adjacent to Cottage Road and Farin
Received 29 Jan 2026O/S 50 Hawkins Way, Abingdon, OX13 6LA
Received 28 Jul 2025Fernley, Shrivenham Road, Longcot, Faringdon, SN7 7TL
Received 19 Jan 2023Lovells Barn, The Meadows, Lower Bourton, Swindon, SN6 8HX
Received 23 Apr 2021Land at Grove Road, Grove, OX12 7PD
Received 21 Aug 202338 Buscot Drive, Abingdon, OX14 2BL
Received 10 Feb 2025Land south east of Diamond Synchrotron, Fermi Avenue, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0DE
Received 5 Aug 2025Dragon Hill, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RE
Received 30 Mar 20231 Fishermans Wharf, Abingdon, OX14 5RX
Received 13 May 2024Albert Park, Park Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1DG
Received 10 Apr 2025Old Laundry Cottage Wytham Oxford OX2 8QQ
Received 2 Sept 20262 The Street, East Lockinge, Wantage, OX12 8QG
Received 1 Nov 2018Cedar Glen, Harris's Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5EH
Received 6 Jan 2022Thatched Tavern, Eaton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5JH
Received 2 Aug 2023Village Green next to Swan Public House, Sutton Courtenay, Oxon
Received 6 Nov 2024Dove Court, Swan Lane, Faringdon, SN7 7AB
Received 22 Jun 2017Hattons Farm, Radcot Road, Faringdon, SN7 8DT
Received 19 May 2021New House, Churchmere Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AQ
Received 4 Sept 2018Moat Cottage, St Mary's Road, East Hendred, Oxon, OX12 8LF
Received 16 Nov 2021Moresby, Bedwells Heath, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5JE
Received 26 Apr 2022Land at Portway Farm Buildings, Featherbed Lane, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JF
Received 24 Sept 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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