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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
10,247 approved · 933 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oaksmere, Appleton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5QU
Received 25 May 202111 Fennel Way, Abingdon, OX14 3TL
Received 28 Jun 2021Building R69, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0FA
Received 18 Sept 2024Abingdon School, Park Road, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 1DE
Received 24 Nov 2021Haugh House, Church Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5DX
Received 18 Jan 20245 Ginge Brook, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AL
Received 4 Sept 2023Maslina, Reading Road, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9JJ
Received 18 May 20226 Hazel Road, Oxford, OX2 9LF
Received 22 Jul 202124-28 St Annes House, Newbury Street, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8DA
Received 16 Jun 2022Curly Cottage, Ginge Road, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RR
Received 23 Jul 202165 Coromandel, Abingdon, OX14 5QB
Received 26 Nov 2024Church of St Mary, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QW
Received 6 Jul 2022Robey House, Mill Orchard, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0JH
Received 13 Jun 2022The Homestead, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, SN7 7LW
Received 16 Feb 2023Land at the former Didcot Power Station, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 7HA
Received 23 Sept 202512 Miles Drive, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7JA
Received 7 Mar 202231 Victoria Road, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 1DQ
Received 1 Oct 201830 Harwell Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4BW
Received 19 Sept 2018Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon, OX13 5QL
Received 21 May 202117 Park Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DA
Received 20 Dec 201824 Upper Green, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HY
Received 4 May 202322-26 The Clock House, Ock Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 5SW
Received 13 Aug 2025Barkside, The Malthouse, Ashbury, Swindon, SN6 8NB
Received 3 Apr 2018Rectory House, Broadbrook Lane, Sparsholt, Wantage, OX12 9PT
Received 22 Oct 2021Records 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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