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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
10,375 approved · 942 refused · 1,092 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 at Little Acorns Nursery Main Street West Hagbourne OX11 0NA
Received 16 Jun 2026Hatford Quarry, Fernham Road, Hatford, Faringdon, SN7 8JQ
Received 17 Mar 2021Existing Base Station, Wytham Street, Sunningwell Road, South Hinksey, OX1 3SY
Received 7 Oct 202548 Bagley Close, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5LT
Received 24 Mar 202644 Milton Park, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4RU
Received 28 Feb 2018The Paddocks, Vineyard, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3PG
Received 10 Jun 202130 Hawthorn Crescent, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7JD
Received 25 Mar 2019Land to the West of Great Western Park (Valley Park), Didcot (in the parishes of Harwell and Milton)
Received 25 Aug 2022Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Mary Lyon Centre, Road Thirteen, Didcot, OX11 0RD
Received 22 Dec 2025Plot 4, Wyndyke Furlong, Abingdon, OX14 1DZ
Received 6 Jun 2023The Plough Inn, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7SR
Received 2 Nov 201817 Crafts End, Chilton, OX11 0SA
Received 7 Nov 2017Waste Court, 76 Bath Street, Abingdon, OX14 1EB
Received 29 Nov 2021Bridge Farm Quarry, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4PP
Received 3 Jan 202361 Oxford Road, Abingdon, OX14 2AA
Received 5 Jun 201855 Parsons Mead, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1LW
Received 15 Jul 2021The Old Barn, 13 Henleys Lane, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4HU
Received 4 Oct 201722 North Hinksey Lane, North Hinksey Village, Oxford, OX2 0NA
Received 16 Jan 2026Caldicott Road Area, Abingdon
Received 29 Jun 2017Thatched Tavern, Eaton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5JH
Received 25 Sept 2023Cherry Tree Barn, Chapel Road, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8LE
Received 3 Mar 2022Land west of Station Road (A338), South of William F1, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0DQ
Received 30 Oct 2017Stables House, Sugworth Lane, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 2HX
Received 13 Mar 2024Wood End, Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OX1 5BQ
Received 5 Mar 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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