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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
10,004 approved · 918 refused · 1,056 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Apr 2017 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dental Surgery, 45 Ock Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 5AG
Received 29 Aug 2023Stone Barn, The Greenway, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RD
Received 22 Mar 2021Sprivers, Fox Lane, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5DS
Received 22 Feb 2022School House Farm, Broadway Road, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7QH
Received 1 Apr 2025Laburnum Cottage, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7LP
Received 25 Jun 2025Pewit Farm, Manor Road, Wantage, OX12 8LY
Received 18 Feb 2022Between Cowley and Minety, and Cowley and Walham
Received 8 Jun 2026The Old Orchard, Littleworth, Faringdon, SN7 8ED
Received 6 May 20222 Hengest Gate, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0HH
Received 22 Oct 2025Yatsden, Foxcombe Road, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5DG
Received 10 Feb 20222 St James Road, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3AQ
Received 20 Jul 201771 Besselsleigh Road Wootton Abingdon OX13 6DX
Received 10 Jul 2026Buckridges, 13 High Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AW
Received 3 Apr 2023Phase 1T (Primrose Gardens) Valley Park Didcot
Received 23 Jul 2026The Old Rectory, High Street, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4EW
Received 9 Aug 2021Letcombe Bowers Farm, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9NG
Received 19 Jan 20226A Road, Lower Radley, Abingdon, OX14 3AX
Received 15 Apr 2021Waterford House, Rolls Court, Wantage, OX12 9AE
Received 13 Jun 2022The Poplars, Church Street, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LA
Received 20 Oct 2023Vine House, Chapel Square, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JN
Received 19 Oct 20178 Preston Road, Abingdon, OX14 5LB
Received 2 Aug 2018145 Pinnocks Way, Oxford, OX2 9DF
Received 5 Oct 2023Shrivenham Church Of England Primary School, High Street, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8AA
Received 23 Sept 2024Furzewick Farm, Manor Road, Wantage, OX12 8NG
Received 14 Jun 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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