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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
10,739 approved · 960 refused · 1,125 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 Bagley Close, Kennington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 5LS
Received 1 Oct 2018Hunters Moon, Charney Road, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5HW
Received 12 Mar 2019Dunstan Lodge, South Street, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JY
Received 15 Jan 2018The Long Bungalow, Fernham Road, Longcot, Faringdon, SN7 7TG
Received 4 Apr 2022Phase 7, Land At Grove Airfield Denchworth Road Grove
Received 30 Apr 20263A Cumnor Hill, OXFORD, OX2 9EU
Received 1 Mar 201816 Abingdon Road, Cumnor, OX2 9QN
Received 2 Dec 202537 Deanfield Road, Oxford, OX2 9DW
Received 2 Feb 2021R24, Land east of Road 8, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Harwell Campus, OX11 0QX
Received 3 Oct 2025Frilford Manor, Kingston Road, Frilford, Abingdon, OX13 5HB
Received 20 Oct 2025Marshall Jaguar Land Rover, 5 Milton Gate, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4FP
Received 26 Jun 2018Mrs Brotherton's Temple, Pusey House, Pusey Estate, Faringdon, SN7 8QB
Received 25 Feb 2021Former Grove Airfield (Phase 7) West of Grove to the West of Newlands Drive Land North of Denchworth Road Grove
Received 7 Aug 2026Land adjacent to The Nurseries, London Road, Blewbury, OX11 9HB
Received 30 Nov 2018Sugworth Lane, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2LL
Received 15 Jul 2025Sawyers, South Street, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PR
Received 29 Nov 20177 Northcourt Lane, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 1QA
Received 15 Jun 20173 Oxford Road, Farmoor, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9NN
Received 29 Mar 2018Cedar Glen, Harris's Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5EH
Received 22 Sept 2023Sabine Valley Farm Barns, Cumnor Road, Farmoor, Oxford, OX2 9NS
Received 29 Apr 2025The Old Manor House, The Green, Fernham, SN7 7NT
Received 21 Feb 2022Land at Crab Hill - Phase 6, Land north of A417 and east of A338, Wantage
Received 20 Aug 2024Hill Side, Great Coxwell, FARINGDON, SN7 7NB
Received 25 Aug 2017Blandys Farm Bassett Road Letcombe Regis Wantage OX12 9LJ
Received 9 Apr 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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