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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
10,083 approved · 923 refused · 1,062 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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6 Kent Close, ABINGDON, OX14 3XJ
Received 8 May 20175 Kennington Road, Kennington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 5NZ
Received 5 May 2017Land North of Shrivenham, Highworth Road, Shrivenham
Received 15 Sept 2023The Barn, High Street, Harwell, DIDCOT, OX11 0EX
Received 24 Aug 201713 & 15 Sellwood Road, Abingdon, OX14 1PE
Received 30 Jan 2025Longbarn, Broadleaze Farm, Longcot Road, Shrivenham, SN6 8HG
Received 7 Jun 2021Abingdon School, Park Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DE
Received 21 May 2025Faringdon STW at Land at Faringdon House, south-east of Faringdon Sewage Treatment Works, Lechlade Road (A417), Faringdon, SN7 8BH
Received 7 May 202456 Norreys Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9PU
Received 3 Jul 2024Duncan & Natasha's House Downside Farm Woodway Road Blewbury Didcot OX11 9EX
Received 23 Apr 2026135 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9BY
Received 25 Jun 2025Sparsholt Court, Barn, Mill Lane, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RL
Received 20 Oct 2022Eastfield Farm, Gainfield, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QJ
Received 4 Jul 2024Monks Farm, Townsend, Grove, OX12 0AH
Received 19 Sept 2024208 Upper Road, Kennington, OX1 5LR
Received 1 Mar 2023Land at Common Farm, Lower Common, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7SQ
Received 25 Aug 2021Granary House, London Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PF
Received 26 Aug 2025Redrow Homes, Blaise Park, Milton, OX13 6AG
Received 23 Sept 2025The Old Manor, Sunningwell, Abingdon, OX13 6RB
Received 12 Dec 2025Speyside, Radley Road, Abingdon, OX14 3SN
Received 3 Aug 2021Idstone Farm, Idstone, Swindon, SN6 8LL
Received 22 Apr 2022The Old Forge, High Street, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9JE
Received 9 Jun 2023Fir Trees, London Road, Blewbury, DIDCOT, OX11 9PB
Received 6 Feb 2018Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Rutherford Avenue, Harwell, OX11 0DF
Received 26 Oct 2017Records 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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