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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10,840 approved · 968 refused · 1,138 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
11 Hutchcomb Rd, Botley, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 9HN
Received 20 Jul 2017Challow Marsh, Circourt Road, Denchworth, Wantage, OX12 0ED
Received 24 Oct 2018Pax Hill, Locks Lane, Wantage, OX12 9DB
Received 20 Dec 202313 Browns Close, Botley, OXFORD, OX2 9DB
Received 3 May 2017Land to the rear of Pippins, Locks Lane, Wantage, OX12 9DB
Received 20 Jun 2023Land to the right of Great Coxwell turn, Coxwell Road, Farringdon, SN7 7SP
Received 21 Feb 202237 Berry Croft, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1JN
Received 10 Dec 2018Millstone House, 1 Old Manor Court, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JL
Received 14 Aug 201712 Westfield, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LG
Received 11 Jan 2024Chilswell, Carmelite Priory, Lane From Chilswell Lane To Chilswell Farm, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5HB
Received 3 Mar 20239 Upper Green, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HY
Received 14 Oct 20222 Coleshill, Swindon, SN6 7PR
Received 8 Feb 202144 Larkhill Road, Abingdon, OX14 1BL
Received 12 Sept 2025Greenways, Lamborough Hill, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6BY
Received 24 Apr 2018Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX
Received 23 Jan 202327 The Nursery, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4UA
Received 22 Jul 202233 South Avenue, Abingdon, OX14 1QR
Received 16 May 2018Parcel South East A, Crab Hill, Reading Road, Wantage, OX12 8HT
Received 3 Sept 2018Botley Centre, West Way, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9LP
Received 22 Feb 2023Various retail units Botley Local Centre, The Square and Chapel Way, Botley, Oxfordshire
Received 5 Jan 2017113 Kennington Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5PE
Received 6 Jul 2022Nearby Orchard Road, Westfields, Abingdon, OX14 1BA
Received 28 Jun 20234 The Square, Abingdon, OX14 5AR
Received 23 Feb 2022Norreys, 14A The Green, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AE
Received 3 May 2018Records 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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