Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
11,110 approved · 995 refused · 1,169 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
The Manor Preparatory School, Faringdon Road, Shippon, Abingdon, OX13 6LN
Received 4 May 202121 Lansdowne Road, Dry Sandford, Abingdon, OX13 6EA
Received 22 Aug 202211 Paddock Close, Wantage, OX12 7EQ
Received 6 Jun 2022Cleve Cottage, Chapel Lane, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PQ
Received 27 Oct 201610 The Gap, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6NJ
Received 20 Oct 2025Rowstock House, Wantage Road, Rowstock, Didcot, OX11 0JP
Received 2 Nov 2023The Vicarage, Ross Court, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5AD
Received 19 Jul 20241 The Laurels,, Great Coxwell, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7NF
Received 2 Aug 2017Dragon Hill, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RE
Received 22 Jun 2023The Old Post Office, High Street, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JY
Received 17 Jan 20223 Brind Close, Steventon, ABINGDON, Oxon, OX13 6FG
Received 12 May 201754 Churchward Close, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0QZ
Received 6 Apr 201814 Market Place, Abingdon, OX14 3HA
Received 12 Aug 202117 Bow Bank, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5ER
Received 9 Jun 202121 High Street, Cumnor, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9PE
Received 6 Dec 20172 Marlborough Street, Flat 2, Faringdon, SN7 7JP
Received 3 Dec 202429 East St Helen Street, Abingdon, OX14 5EE
Received 9 Jun 202223 High Street, Abingdon, OX14 5BB
Received 27 Aug 202541 High Street, Shrivenham, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 8AN
Received 11 Nov 201622 Masefield Crescent, Abingdon, OX14 5PH
Received 18 May 2021The Bay Tree, The Green, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0AN
Received 19 Mar 2021101 The Causeway, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6SJ
Received 14 Dec 2023Cherbury Cottage, Pusey, Faringdon, SN7 8QD
Received 13 Jan 2021Pound House, Road Running Through Goosey, Goosey, FARINGDON, SN7 8PA
Received 9 Sept 2016Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage