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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
10,475 approved · 944 refused · 1,097 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Collis Moor, Nottingham Fee, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PG
Received 3 Oct 2023Victoria Cross Gallery, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AS
Received 4 Dec 2025Various locations, Faringdon, SN7 7BZ
Received 7 Dec 2022Blewburton Barns, Hagbourne Road, Aston Upthorpe, DIDCOT, OX11 9EE
Received 8 Mar 2017Grove Park Drive, Grove Park, WANTAGE, OX12 7QG
Received 20 Nov 20171 The Green, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0HH
Received 5 Mar 202137 Cedar Road, Botley, OXFORD, OX2 9ED
Received 22 Mar 2018Sterling House, Oxford Road, Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor, OX13 5AP
Received 17 Jan 201994 West Way, OXFORD, OX2 9JU
Received 4 Dec 2017Robey House, Mill Orchard, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0JH
Received 8 Nov 20233 Stonebridge Road, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6AS
Received 4 Apr 20232 St Michaels, Priory Road, Wantage, OX12 9DE
Received 29 Nov 2023The Old Farm House, Northcourt Lane, Abingdon, OX14 1PN
Received 29 Jun 2023Land at Park Farm, East Challow
Received 19 Jul 2018Land west of I13 and east of Visitor Centre, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0FD
Received 16 Nov 2021The Studio House, Thames Street, Abingdon, OX14 3HZ
Received 15 Dec 2017Site Of Greensands, Reading Road, East Hendred, OX12 8JE
Received 16 Sept 202238 The Glebe, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QA
Received 31 Jan 202252 High Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AS
Received 26 Sept 202257 The Glebe, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QB
Received 25 Apr 20222 St Johns Yard, St Johns College Estate Yard, Main Road, Fyfield, OX13 5LN
Received 28 Mar 2018Land and building West of Peewit Farm, Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Oxon
Received 6 Apr 2023Sovereign Housing, Bromsgove, Farringdon, SN7 7JQ
Received 13 Feb 202316 The Motte, ABINGDON, OX14 3PA
Received 25 Oct 2017Records 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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