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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
10,398 approved · 943 refused · 1,092 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jan 2017 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7-9 High Street, Abingdon, OX14 5BB
Received 9 May 2023Challow Park, Challow Road, WANTAGE, OX12 9RH
Received 2 Feb 2018Chain Hill House, Chain Hill, Wantage, OX12 8PB
Received 10 May 2021Cromwell House, 41 High Street, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8NQ
Received 14 Feb 202511 Frilsham Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AZ
Received 4 Oct 202182 to 86, Kennington Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5PE
Received 4 Oct 2021Genesis Building, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, OX11 0SG
Received 17 Nov 2022Faringdon Road, Abingdon
Received 9 Oct 2018Botley Centre, West Way, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9LP
Received 24 Apr 2018The Black Horse, Main Street, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0JE
Received 11 May 2023King Alfred School East, Springfield Road, Wantage, OX12 8ET
Received 16 Jul 201825 Orchard Way, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LQ
Received 9 Jun 2025Barn 1 at Woodland Farm, Appleton Road, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5EF
Received 28 Apr 2017Upper Mill Winslow To Upper Mill Kingstone Winslow Swindon SN6 8NG
Received 5 May 2026194 Poplar Grove, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5QT
Received 19 Oct 202314 Beaker Place, Milton, OX14 4FR
Received 18 Mar 2025Charlton Acorns Pre School, Charlton Village Road, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 7HG
Received 16 May 2018College Farm, Ashbury, Swindon, SN6 8LN
Received 3 Mar 20262 & 3 Park Square, Milton Park, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RZ
Received 12 May 2022St Michaels, Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OX1 5BJ
Received 8 Aug 20184 Bath Street, ABINGDON, OX14 3QH
Received 28 Mar 201749 Buscot Drive, Abingdon, OX14 2BL
Received 14 Oct 2021Wayside, Road Through Great Coxwell, Great Coxwell, Faringdon, SN7 7NB
Received 5 Aug 20251 Vale Avenue Grove OX12 7LU
Received 3 Jul 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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