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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
10,757 approved · 962 refused · 1,129 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land to the west of Red House Farm, Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9ND
Received 31 Oct 2022Monks Court, Newbury Road, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LG
Received 1 Feb 201737 High Street, Drayton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4JW
Received 5 Jan 2026Unit 9A-9D, Nuffield Way, Abingdon Business Park, Abingdon, OX14 1TN
Received 7 May 2024Youlbury Scout Activity Centre, Youlbury, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5HD
Received 28 Sept 2022Land North of Shrivenham (New Development), Highworth Road, Shrivenham, SN6 8AU
Received 3 Oct 2025Westacre, 16 Hids Copse Road, Cumnor Hill, OXFORD, OX2 9JJ
Received 16 Mar 2017Leverets, Garford, Abingdon, OX13 5PF
Received 27 Jul 2023Hall Barn Close, Chapel Lane, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PQ
Received 22 Sept 2017Meadowbrook, 4 Fawler Road, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7SD
Received 10 Jan 2023Land north west of Abingdon-on-Thames, Land bound by Wootton Road, Dunmore Road and the A34, Abingdon-on-Thames
Received 1 Jul 2021Cherbury Cottage, Pusey, Faringdon, SN7 8QD
Received 14 Apr 2023Hitchcopse, Cothill Road, Cothill, Abingdon, OX13 6QQ
Received 20 Mar 2025Land East of Chain Hill, Chain Hill Road, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 8FU
Received 24 Sept 2024Rowstock House, Wantage Road, Rowstock, Didcot, OX11 0JP
Received 24 May 2024South Oxfordshire Crematorium and Memorial Park, Garford, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5PA
Received 29 Jan 20218 Ock Street, Abingdon, OX14 5AP
Received 5 Aug 2024West View Cottage, Church Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5DX
Received 26 Sept 2018The Old Stables, Fernham Road, Shellingford, FARINGDON, SN7 7PU
Received 31 Oct 201719 Cumnor Rise Road, Oxford, OX2 9HD
Received 10 Dec 20242 The Green, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4AE
Received 26 Oct 2025Pull Croft, 53 High Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AT
Received 4 May 2023Letcombe Valley Nature Reserve, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, Oxon
Received 5 Oct 2021Winterslow House, Lincombe Lane, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5DZ
Received 22 Jan 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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