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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
11,016 approved · 990 refused · 1,157 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Crab Hill, Land north of A417, Wantage
Received 21 Jun 20229 Old Farm Close, Abingdon, OX14 3XU
Received 24 Aug 2021Land at Fallowfields, Faringdon Road, Southmoor, OX13 5BH
Received 8 Jun 2018Wishing Well, 2 Rectory Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5DZ
Received 6 Sept 2021Blagrove Lodge, Fox Lane, Abingdon, OX13 6DE
Received 1 Jul 2021Joyces Road, Bow, Stanford in the Vale, SN7 8HT
Received 2 Jan 2024Parsonage Farm, Sparsholt Road, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9PH
Received 17 May 2018Buckland Service Station, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8PY
Received 12 Dec 2016Blackberry Cottage Oldfield Farm, Road Running Through Baulking, Baulking, FARINGDON, SN7 8NS
Received 17 Nov 2017Tolkien Cottage, Townsend, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0SJ
Received 5 Nov 202582 Cumnor Hill, OXFORD, OX2 9HU
Received 3 Oct 2016Land off Packhorse Lane, Packhorse Lane, Marcham, Marcham, OX13 6NU
Received 12 Jun 2017Junction of A420/A415, Broadclyst, Oxford, OX13 5HZ
Received 7 Feb 2018Oakley Equestrian Centre, Faringdon Road A417, Field opposite Goosey Lane, Faringdon, SN7 8PE
Received 18 Mar 2019Gainfield Farm, Gainfield, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QH
Received 27 Mar 201918 Hill Mead, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0FP
Received 28 Jul 202576A Honeybottom Lane, Dry Sandford, ABINGDON, OX13 6BX
Received 17 Aug 201725 Sugworth Crescent, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2JR
Received 15 Mar 202144 Sugworth Lane, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 2HY
Received 14 Sept 2022Land off Paddocks Lane - The Paddocks (adjoining Godfrey Clo, East Hanney, Wantage
Received 27 Nov 2024Entree Global Services, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, OX14 4FH
Received 15 Nov 202336 St Pauls Crescent, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9AG
Received 6 Sept 2018Whitwick, Grosvenor Road, Oxford, OX2 9AX
Received 11 Jul 2024Charney Manor, Charney Bassett, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 0EJ
Received 2 Oct 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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