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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
10,270 approved · 934 refused · 1,077 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 7 Oct 2026190 Wootton Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1JZ
Received 21 Nov 2023Wellingtonia Lodge, Buckland Road, Buckland, SN7 8QW
Received 28 Jun 2017St Helen's Church & Church Court, St Helens Court, Abingdon, OX14 5BS
Received 25 Mar 2021Lothlorien Harcourt Hill Oxford OX2 9AS
Received 21 Apr 2026Land at Grove Road, Grove, OX12 7PD
Received 12 Oct 202339 Sharland Close, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0AF
Received 24 Feb 2025Land North of Hobby Horse Lane, Sutton Courtenay, OX14 4BB
Received 18 Apr 202455 Chilton Field Way, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0SQ
Received 16 May 202319 Colton Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8AZ
Received 19 Mar 202122 Westfield, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LG
Received 26 Mar 2026Land at Former Didcot Power Station, Purchas Road, Didcot
Received 12 Mar 2021Memorial Hall, Section of A420 Running Through Buckland, Buckland, FARINGDON, SN7 8QT
Received 23 Aug 2017Old Town Hall, Old Town Hall, Market Place, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7HL
Received 19 Oct 2018Land off Townsend Road, Townsend Road, Shrivenham, SN6 8HR
Received 6 Dec 201826 Picklers Hill, Abingdon, OX14 2BA
Received 10 Jan 2022Tudor House, Stowhill, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9XQ
Received 3 Apr 2025Lilac Cottage, Woolstone Road, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RF
Received 24 Jul 202317 Sandleigh Road, Dry Sandford, Abingdon, OX13 6DP
Received 24 Mar 2026Childrey House, West Street, Childrey, WANTAGE, OX12 9UJ
Received 12 Apr 2017Shrivenham Hundred Business Park, Majors Road, Watchfield, Swindon, SN6 8TZ
Received 1 Feb 2023Land North of Rutherford Avenue, Harwell Campus, OX11 0GD
Received 7 Sept 2023Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, South of Thomson Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QG
Received 3 Jul 2023Phase 3Pa and 3Pb, Land to the West of Great Western Park (Valley Park), Didcot
Received 18 Jun 2025Records 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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