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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
10,186 approved · 930 refused · 1,065 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Site Of Greensands, Reading Road, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JE
Received 8 Aug 20223 New Row, Stable End, Buckland Road, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QN
Received 26 Jun 2024134 Cumnor Hill, Oxford, OX2 9PH
Received 25 Aug 2023Pusey Estate, Pusey House, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8QB
Received 26 Oct 20181 High Street, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4JL
Received 13 Feb 2023Former Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 27 May 202546 Colton Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8AZ
Received 28 Nov 202221 Sandleigh Road Dry Sandford OX13 6DP
Received 8 Jun 20268 Mere Dyke Road, Steventon, OX13 6AX
Received 16 Sept 2022Elm Close Cottage, Old Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5JJ
Received 7 Mar 2019Unit B7 District Centre, Great Western Park, DIDCOT, OX11 6GD
Received 3 Jan 2018Kennington Road, Radley, Kennington, OX14 2JR
Received 5 Oct 202329 Elizabeth Drive, Wantage, OX12 9YA
Received 3 Jun 202421 Chailey Gardens, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9FL
Received 18 Oct 202130 Ballingers, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8FP
Received 7 Feb 2025Home Farm, Church Street, Shellingford, Faringdon
Received 20 Dec 2018Land to the south of Rutherford Avenue, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QG
Received 26 Sept 20255 Main Road, Appleford, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4PG
Received 23 Jun 20214 Johnstones, Goosey Lane, Goosey, Faringdon, SN7 8PE
Received 29 May 2024Fire Station, Radio Station At, Ormond Road, Wantage, OX12 8DU
Received 29 Mar 2021Bushey Barns, Pusey, Faringdon, SN7 8QE
Received 15 May 2018Kingswell Hotel And Restaurant, Reading Road, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LZ
Received 1 Mar 2023Land to the south of Curie Avenue and west of Eighth Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DF
Received 19 Aug 202410 Hill View Lane, Wootton, Boars Hill, OX1 5JT
Received 12 Jan 2026Records 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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