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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
9,980 approved · 918 refused · 1,054 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Little Fishes Nursery, Milton Hill,, Steventon,, Abingdon, OX13 6BD
Received 1 Sept 2025Cclrc, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0QX
Received 3 Dec 201812 Park Road, Faringdon, SN7 7BT
Received 23 Jun 202134 Welford Gardens, Abingdon, OX14 2BW
Received 17 Feb 202544, East Lockinge, Wantage, Oxforshire, OX12 8QD
Received 8 Oct 2025Coseners House, 15-16 Abbey Close, Abingdon, OX14 3JD
Received 25 Feb 2021Hall Barn, Westbrook Street, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9QB
Received 10 Nov 202134 Caldecott Road, Abingdon, OX14 5HB
Received 10 May 2018White Cottage, High Street, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0EX
Received 16 Jul 2024Middle Green Farm, Baulking, Faringdon, SN7 7QE
Received 27 Apr 2023Eidsvoll, Bedwells Heath, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5JE
Received 27 May 2022Santander, 23 Bury Street, Abingdon, OX14 3QT
Received 13 May 2025Anvil Cottage, Anvil Lane, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9LA
Received 19 Oct 2017The Quadrant, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3YS
Received 2 Aug 202122 Norreys Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9PT
Received 16 Apr 2024Land south and east of, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4BW
Received 25 Jul 2018Land off Townsend Road, Townsend Road, Shrivenham, SN6 8HR
Received 13 Sept 2018Phase 2Ta (Jasmine Fields), Valley Park, Didcot
Received 5 Feb 2026Appleton Manor, Eaton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5JR
Received 23 Sept 2021Arborfield, Didcot Road, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 6DH
Received 25 Apr 2018Blake's Kitchen Coleshill, Buscot and Coleshill Estates, Coleshill, SN6 7PT
Received 16 Apr 202411 Crabtree Lane, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4HS
Received 24 Feb 20261 The Old School, School Lane, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0ES
Received 14 Apr 2021Land at Common Farm, Lower Common, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7SQ
Received 25 Aug 2021Records 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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