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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
11,081 approved · 992 refused · 1,163 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Hobbyhorse Lane, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4BB
Received 16 Apr 202114 Delamare Way, Oxford, OX2 9HZ
Received 7 Mar 2023St Amands RC Primary School, St Marys Road, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LF
Received 2 Jan 2019Former Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 6 Aug 2025Falcon Court, Market Place, Wantage, OX12 8AW
Received 2 Oct 202322 Cleycourt Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8BN
Received 10 May 2024Land south of, Goosey Lane, Goosey, FARINGDON, SN7 8PA
Received 12 Apr 201715 Long Close, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9SG
Received 9 Jun 20233 Snuggs Lane, East Hanney, OX12 0HU
Received 16 Sept 202226 Arnolds Way, Oxford, OX2 9JB
Received 3 Mar 2021Paintons Farmhouse, 44 Netherton Lane, Netherton, Abingdon, OX13 5LS
Received 20 Nov 2025King Alfred School East, Springfield Road, Wantage, OX12 8ET
Received 26 Mar 2019Stonehill House, Stonehill, Drayton, Abingdon, OX14 4AA
Received 5 Oct 20168 Coulings Close, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JQ
Received 1 Mar 2021The Dairy, Baulking, Faringdon, SN7 7QE
Received 7 Apr 20222 Claypits Lane, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8AH
Received 24 Jun 202119 Hunters Field, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8LR
Received 8 Jun 2021Land south of Park Road, Faringdon, SN7 7NP
Received 7 Feb 2024Windy Ridge, Horn Lane, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LD
Received 13 Feb 2024Tesco, Garden Centre, Marcham Road, Abingdon, OX14 1TU
Received 25 Oct 2022Winterbrook Farm, Bessels Way, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9NL
Received 28 Mar 2023Netherton Road Field (Between 38 Netherton Road and South La, Netherton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5JX
Received 21 Sept 202118B Wallingford Street, WANTAGE, OX12 8AX
Received 23 Mar 2017The Thatched House, Stanton Road, OXFORD, OX2 9AY
Received 21 Mar 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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