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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
11,110 approved · 995 refused · 1,169 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Frilford Grange Cottage Kingston Road Frilford Abingdon OX13 5NX
Received 10 Aug 2026Land North of Shrivenham Highworth Road, Shrivenham
Received 25 Jun 202531 Pinnocks Way, OXFORD, OX2 9DD
Received 31 Mar 2017Smelting Yard, Station Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8GG
Received 19 Jan 202659 The Causeway, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6SE
Received 6 Sept 2021Sandy Lodge, Abingdon Road, Tubney, OX13 5QL
Received 17 Nov 202329 Sandleigh Road, Wootton, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6DP
Received 13 Mar 2018The Old Bakehouse, 17 - 18A Thames Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3HZ
Received 26 Mar 2018Childrey House, West Street, Childrey, WANTAGE, OX12 9UJ
Received 22 Jan 2018Land adjacent to the War Memorial, Perimeter Road, Harwell Campus, Didcot
Received 28 Jul 202524 Fairthorne Way, Shrivenham, SWINDON, SN6 8EB
Received 19 May 2017Church End, Wytham, Oxford, OX2 8QE
Received 22 Feb 2021Denman College, New Road, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6NW
Received 9 Apr 2025Dove Court, Swan Lane, Faringdon, SN7 7AB
Received 11 Sept 2023Wantage Town Cemetery, Chain Hill, Wantage, OX12 8HS
Received 11 Jan 2019Wellshead Cottage, Wellshead, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0HD
Received 26 Jul 202381 Hanney Road, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6AN
Received 23 Jun 2023Downs Cottage, Fernham Road, Longcot, Faringdon, SN7 7TG
Received 3 Sept 2018RM1b - Phase 2 Valley Park Didcot
Received 21 May 202669 Appleton Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9QH
Received 21 Jul 2021Buckridges, 13 High Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AW
Received 9 Nov 2018Hill House, 20 London Street, Faringdon, SN7 7AA
Received 7 Jul 2021Land South of, 87 High Street, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4EJ
Received 15 Jul 2021A4130, Milton Height, Didcot, OX14 4RX
Received 23 Dec 2025Records 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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