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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
9,821 approved · 909 refused · 1,037 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Brumcombe Lane, Bayworth, Abingdon, OX13 6QU
Received 21 Nov 2025Snowdrop Cottage, Cothill Road, Cothill, Abingdon, OX13 6QQ
Received 21 Jul 2025Pinewood, Fox Lane, Oxford, OX1 5DR
Received 3 Sept 2025The Coppice (please also see email and plan from agent), Buckland Road, Buckland, Nr Faringdon, SN7 8QN
Received 12 Dec 2018Tugwell Field, The Bandhall, Reading Road, Wantage, OX12 8FR
Received 15 Nov 2018Lady Place, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4FB
Received 16 Nov 202316 Spinage Close, Faringdon, SN7 7BW
Received 28 Jul 20221 The Gallops, Newbury Road, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0PF
Received 15 Aug 2018Pound House 21 The Causeway Steventon Abingdon OX13 6SE
Received 9 Oct 2026Cross Trees Cottage, 1 Brook Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AH
Received 17 Dec 2024Land south of Highworth Road, Highworth Road, Faringdon, SN7 7EY
Received 29 Jun 202113 North Street, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6NG
Received 15 Jul 202487 Howard Cornish Road, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6PU
Received 18 Mar 20245 Manor Court, ABINGDON, Oxon, OX14 5EF
Received 13 Jul 201717 Stevenson Drive, Abingdon, OX14 1SN
Received 19 Sept 2025Millennium House, High Street, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0ER
Received 15 Oct 2021Crystalox Building, Kings Park, Limborough Road, Wantage, OX12 9AJ
Received 3 Jul 2025Land South of the A415, Marcham
Received 25 Jan 2024Radley C Of E Primary School, Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 3QF
Received 1 Apr 2022Byways, Church Lane, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0EZ
Received 25 May 2022Sparsholt Manor, Sparsholt Street, Sparsholt, Wantage, OX12 9PT
Received 13 Jun 2022Shrivenham Recreation Ground/Pump Island & Garage Island, Shrivenham, SN6 8AA
Received 27 Jan 2025Beechdene, Tatham Road, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 1QD
Received 6 Oct 2022Land North of Dunmore Road, Abingdon, OX14 1PU
Received 27 Mar 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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