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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10,398 approved · 943 refused · 1,092 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Old Farmhouse, Tucks Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5ET
Received 15 Oct 20243 Frilsham Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AZ
Received 22 Feb 202116 Manor Road, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6DG
Received 11 May 2021The Verandah, 23 Colegrove Down, Oxford, OX2 9HT
Received 28 Jun 2021Lodge Farm House, Pusey, Faringdon, SN7 8QD
Received 16 Sept 2025Bourton Church Railway Overbridge, Bourton, SN6 8HZ
Received 8 Mar 2018Monks Farm, Townsend, Grove, OX12 0AH
Received 2 Aug 2023Green Lane/Brumcombe Lane, Bayworth, OX13 6QT
Received 6 Mar 2025Westcot Farm, Westcot, Westcot, WANTAGE, OX12 9QA
Received 16 Oct 20179 Seven Sisters Way, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9RX
Received 20 Mar 2023Little Farm, Fawler Road, Kingston Lisle, Wantage, OX12 9QH
Received 23 Aug 2017184 Westminster Way, Oxford, OX2 0LR
Received 21 Aug 201836 West Way Square, Oxford, OX2 9TJ
Received 20 Feb 2023Post Office Vaults, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AT
Received 28 Feb 202587 Abingdon Road, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4HL
Received 18 Nov 2025The Clock House, High Street, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RP
Received 30 Apr 2021White Star Cottage, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6BU
Received 9 Jan 2024Mollies Motel & Diner, Shrivenham Road, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8PY
Received 25 Jun 20243, Sheards Lane, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8LW
Received 15 Jun 2018Millbrook Cottage, Berry Lane, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9QJ
Received 25 Jul 2022Land North of Rutherford Road, Crab Hill, Wantage
Received 12 Mar 2025Corridor between the A34 Milton Interchange and the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden including part of the A4130 east of the A34 Milton Interchange, land between Didcot and the former Didcot A Power Station and the Great Western Mainline, land to the north of Didcot where it crosses a private railway sidings and the River Thames to the west of Appleford-on-Thames before joining the A415 west of Culham Station, land to the south of Culham Science Centre through to a connection with the B4015 north of Clifton Hampden
Received 18 Sept 2026Ashcroft House, Lincombe Lane, Boars Hill, OXFORD, OX1 5DX
Received 17 Mar 2017Hills Quarry Products Ltd, Upwood Quarry, Besselsleigh, Abingdon, OX13 5DW
Received 18 Aug 2022Records 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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