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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
10,531 approved · 947 refused · 1,105 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Dec 2016 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
20 Hutchcomb Road, Oxford, OX2 9HN
Received 6 Oct 20257 High Street, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4JL
Received 4 Mar 2024Kingston Lisle Farm, Kingston Lisle, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9QH
Received 4 Jan 2017Land at Former Froud's Builders Yard, Reading Road, Harwell
Received 15 Aug 2018Hill View, Lodge Hill, Abingdon, OX14 2JA
Received 7 Jun 201887 High Street, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4EJ
Received 1 Sept 202192 Whitecross, Wootton, Abingdon, Oxon, OX13 6BU
Received 22 Mar 2017Green Lane/Brumcombe Lane, Bayworth, OX13 6QT
Received 23 Dec 202553 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9BS
Received 23 Apr 2021Land south of Curie Avenue & west of Second Street, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QG
Received 6 Aug 20258 Fernham Gate, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7LR
Received 21 Jan 2021Stonepitt Barn Kingston Road Frilford Abingdon OX13 5HB
Received 15 Jun 2026Cross Trees, 1 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AD
Received 31 Aug 2022122 Poplar Grove, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5QP
Received 15 Mar 2022Woodlands, Oxford Road, Frilford Heath, Abingdon, OX13 5NN
Received 10 Mar 2022Land building west of Peewit Farm, Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Oxon
Received 25 Mar 2026Manor Farm, Silver Lane, West Challow, Wantage, OX12 9TX
Received 8 Aug 202311 Fernham Road Faringdon SN7 7JY
Received 13 Jul 20261 Kings Lane, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0EJ
Received 2 Feb 2018123C Ock Street Abingdon OX14 5DL
Received 16 Jun 2026High Street, Drayton
Received 29 Mar 201735 Berners Way, FARINGDON, SN7 7NR
Received 2 Feb 2017Packers Forge, High Street, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RP
Received 13 Dec 202126 High Street, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8LH
Received 12 Dec 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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