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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
10,589 approved · 949 refused · 1,110 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
31 Vicarage Lane, Shrivenham, SWINDON, SN6 8DT
Received 12 Dec 2016Bourton Church Overbridge, Shrivenham, SN6 8HZ
Received 3 Feb 2017Laburnum Cottage, 90 Church Lane, Dry Sandford, Abingdon, OX13 6JP
Received 9 Aug 2024South of Public Square, Crab Hill, Land North A417, Wantage
Received 9 Nov 2021Land between A34 Milton Interchange and B4015, north of Clifton Hampden
Received 20 Feb 202693 Lower Radley, Lower Radley, ABINGDON, OX14 3BB
Received 11 Apr 2017Appleford Sidings, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, OX14 4PW
Received 20 Nov 201728 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9BP
Received 15 Sept 2025Land at Monks Farm, Grove, OX12 0AH
Received 30 Jan 20261 Chilbrook, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0HE
Received 14 Jul 2021Waste Transfer Station, Downs Lane, Chilton, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RP
Received 6 Jun 20252 Browns Close, Botley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9DB
Received 22 May 2017Old School House, School Lane, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0ES
Received 27 Sept 2022Chapmans, Nottingham Fee, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PG
Received 7 Oct 2025Thatched Cottage, Bassett Road, Letcombe Bassett, Wantage, OX12 9LL
Received 16 Nov 20223 Cottage Road, Stanford in the Vale, FARINGDON, SN7 8HX
Received 27 Nov 2017Walton House, 45 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4NJ
Received 30 Mar 2021Library Avenue, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0SG
Received 21 Jul 202120 Queen Street, Abingdon, OX14 3LN
Received 25 Jul 2024Priors Hold, 10 Priory Road, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9DD
Received 9 Feb 201710 Byron Close, Abingdon, OX14 5PA
Received 29 Jul 2025Lily Cottage, Bakery Lane, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JN
Received 16 May 202213 Hendred Way, Abingdon, OX14 2AN
Received 24 Jun 2024Glebe House High Street Childrey Wantage OX12 9UA
Received 30 Sept 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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