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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
10,207 approved · 930 refused · 1,066 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land to the North East of Swiss Cottage, Northford Close, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8EY
Received 4 Dec 2025Holywell House, Fernham Road, Shellingford, Faringdon, SN7 7PU
Received 4 Nov 202455 Appleton Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QH
Received 5 Mar 2024Sutton Wick Landfill Site, Stonehill, Drayton, OX14 4AB
Received 29 Sept 2023Land East of, Witney Road, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5AN
Received 28 Feb 2018Ladygrove Cottage, Drayton Road, Abingdon, OX14 5HU
Received 25 Jan 2022Between A34 Milton Interchange, and B4015 Clifton Hampden
Received 5 Nov 2025Faringdon Infant School, Lechlade Road, Faringdon, SN7 8AH
Received 30 Sept 20245 Prince Grove, Abingdon, OX14 1XE
Received 3 May 2022Abingdon Squash Club, Northcourt Road, ABINGDON, OX14 1GG
Received 31 Oct 2017Fawler End, Fawler, Wantage, OX12 9QJ
Received 15 May 20188 Mill Paddock, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JE
Received 16 Feb 2026Briarley, Faringdon Road, Southmoor, Abingdon, OX13 5AF
Received 3 Oct 20182 Bacon Almshouses, Church Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PY
Received 28 Sept 2017Allsorts, 10 Cleycourt Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8BN
Received 15 Mar 2024Cottrills, London Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PD
Received 19 May 2017The Old Farmhouse, West Ginge, Wantage, OX12 8QR
Received 19 Jun 2017Land at North Shrivenham, Highworth Road, Shrivenahm, SN6 8BH
Received 26 Oct 2021Land at Common Farm, Lower Common, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7SQ
Received 31 Aug 202135 Besselsleigh Road, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6DW
Received 25 Nov 2024Field west of Faringdon Road and, North of 1-6 Railway Terrace, Challow, SN7 8NT
Received 3 Sept 2025Westcot Farm, Westcot Lane, Westcot, OX12 9QA
Received 26 Oct 202280 Barrow Road, Shippon, Abingdon, OX13 6JQ
Received 15 May 2023White Cottage, Cat Street, East Hendred, WANTAGE, OX12 8JT
Received 6 Mar 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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