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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
10,294 approved · 936 refused · 1,080 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Brambles, Tudor Walk, Rowstock, DIDCOT, OX11 0JR
Received 27 Sept 201732 Orchard Way, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8ED
Received 27 Jul 201719 Hids Copse Road, Cumnor Hill, Oxford, OX2 9JJ
Received 31 May 2024Grass Verge on Radley Road, Abingdon, OX14 3SL
Received 5 Nov 20241 Kingstone Farmyard, Kingstone Winslow, Swindon, SN6 8NJ
Received 13 Oct 2022South Car Park, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX
Received 10 Feb 2021A34 Lodge Hill Interchange, Abingdon
Received 15 Nov 202426 Arnolds Way, Oxford, OX2 9JB
Received 28 May 202188 Eaton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5JJ
Received 8 Dec 20211 South Cottages, Fyfield Wick, Abingdon, OX13 5NB
Received 24 May 202218 Bridge Street Abingdon OX14 3HS
Received 2 Jun 2026Land to the north west of Radley, Radley
Received 18 Jun 202615 Charney Avenue, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2NZ
Received 12 Sept 201719 Cleycourt Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8BN
Received 17 Jun 20248 Sutton Close, Abingdon, OX14 1ER
Received 13 Jul 2022Walnut Cottage, 199 Cothill Road, Dry Sandford, OX13 6JW
Received 25 Jan 2021Rebellion Film Studios, Milton Road, Sutton Courtenay, OX11 7HH
Received 28 Feb 202315 Long Furlong Road, Sunningwell, Abingdon, OX13 6BL
Received 22 Feb 2022St Michaels, Church Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PY
Received 19 May 2025Sutton Courtenay Landfill Site, Appleford Sidings, Sutton Courtenay
Received 29 Jun 20235 Toynbee Close, Oxford, OX2 9HW
Received 29 Aug 2025Willows, 5 Harcourt Hill, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9AS
Received 21 May 2021Leylands, Lechlade Road, Faringdon, SN7 8AQ
Received 11 Jul 20172 Duxford Farm Cottages, Duxford, Faringdon, SN7 8SQ
Received 1 Dec 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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