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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
10,026 approved · 920 refused · 1,057 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Mar 2017 to 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
2 Castle Street, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6SR
Received 11 May 2021Post Office, Broad Street, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RA
Received 6 May 202247 Laburnum Road, Oxford, OX2 9EN
Received 7 Dec 202217 Joyce Way, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6GA
Received 17 Mar 2021Princes Manor Farm, Church Lane, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0HA
Received 10 Oct 202422 Norreys Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9PT
Received 29 Nov 2024Riverside House, Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AD
Received 13 Jul 2018The Plough Inn, Orchard Lane, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JW
Received 16 Aug 2021Braeside, 1 Manor Road, Wantage, OX12 8DP
Received 12 Jul 2022139 The Avenue Kennington Oxford OX1 5QZ
Received 1 Jul 2026The Old Bakery, 3 Main Road, Fyfield, Abingdon, OX13 5LN
Received 12 Jan 2022(modern) Barns to the south of Priors Court/Manor Farm, Church Street, West Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0LW
Received 3 Jan 2023Lonicera, Station Road, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9HX
Received 13 Jan 202221 Colley Wood Kennington OX1 5NF
Received 26 May 202662,64,66,70,72 & 74, Vineyard, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3PB
Received 31 May 2017Lower Lodge Farm, Charney Road, Longworth, OX13 5HW
Received 30 Apr 2018Race Farm, Race Farm Lane, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5AU
Received 26 Sept 2018Maytree Cottage, 51 Eaton Road, Appleton, Oxon, OX13 5JH
Received 3 Jun 2018Land at Crab Hill, Land north of A417, Wantage
Received 2 May 2018Foxdale, Fox Lane, Boars Hill, OX1 5DR
Received 15 Jun 202313 Westfield Way, Wantage, OX12 7EW
Received 25 Oct 2021Boundary Park Pavilion, Greenwood Way, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 6GB
Received 9 Oct 20181 Linch Farm, Wytham, Oxford, OX2 8QP
Received 4 May 2021Land off Townsend Road, Townsend Road, Shrivenham, SN6 8HR
Received 21 Mar 2019Records 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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