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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
10,840 approved · 968 refused · 1,138 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Oct 2016 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
29 Abingdon Road, Drayton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4HW
Received 7 Dec 201752 Gainsborough Green, Abingdon, OX14 5JN
Received 9 Jun 202218 Wood Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5PL
Received 1 Feb 20222 Childrey Way, ABINGDON, OX14 2DG
Received 21 Mar 2017Bridge View (Opposite), Bridge Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3HN
Received 7 Aug 2025Grove Farm, Grove Lane, Didcot, Oxford, OX14 4DP
Received 20 Dec 20162 & 4 The Old Mill, Mill Street, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9AB
Received 9 May 20249 Russet Drive Milton Abingdon OX14 4BF
Received 7 Aug 2026159 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9NE
Received 17 Feb 2021Land at Crab Hill (Phase 8a), Wantage
Received 23 Mar 2026Shrivenham Vicarage, Shrivenham, Swindon, Oxfordshire, SN6 8AN
Received 9 Sept 2025Foxhill Farm, Sparsholt Road, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9PN
Received 25 Apr 20239 Chestnut Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9EA
Received 23 Mar 20181 Linch Farm, Wytham, Oxford, OX2 8QP
Received 6 Nov 2024Harwell Churchyard & Cemetery, Church Lane/The Cleave, Harwell, Didcot
Received 13 Sept 2021Andersey Farm, Grove Park Drive, Lockinge, Wantage, OX12 8SG
Received 27 Jun 2022The Old Rectory, Childrey, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 9UP
Received 10 Oct 2017J Curtis and Sons Ltd, Thrupp Lane, Radley, ABINGDON, OX14 3NG
Received 15 Dec 2016Wayside House, Beggars Lane, Longworth, ABINGDON, OX13 5BL
Received 4 May 2017Open land to south east of Meadow View, Didcot Road, Harwell, DIDCOT, OX11 6DW
Received 17 Oct 2017Pull Croft, 53 High Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AT
Received 4 May 2023Bagley Croft, Oxford Architects, Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OX1 5BS
Received 17 Jun 2025163 Radley Road, Abingdon, OX14 3RX
Received 2 Mar 202220 Cumnor Hill, OXFORD, OX2 9HA
Received 5 May 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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