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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
11,185 approved · 996 refused · 1,175 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Wytham Abbey, The East Stair, Wytham, Oxford, OX2 8QE
Received 15 Aug 202330 Fogwell Road Oxford OX2 9SB
Received 17 Sept 2026Tames Farmhouse, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RP
Received 29 Nov 201818 Links Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5RU
Received 24 Dec 202539 Besselsleigh Road, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6DW
Received 22 Dec 2022Woodcroft, Foxcombe Lane, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5DH
Received 25 Oct 2021Gable Cottage, Westbrook Street, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9QG
Received 25 Jul 2022160 Upper Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5LW
Received 20 Sept 2024Little Triton, London Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9PD
Received 3 Mar 2026Grove Park Lodge, Grove Park Drive, Lockinge, WANTAGE, OX12 0DH
Received 13 Sept 2017Cross Tree Farm, High Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AW
Received 6 Feb 20247 Bowgrave Copse, Abingdon, OX14 2NL
Received 18 Mar 2021Steventon Railway Overbridge, High Street, Abingdon, OX136RS
Received 24 Nov 201728 Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4NQ
Received 6 Jun 2024Former Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 19 Sept 2024Ravenscourt, 11 Henwood, Wootton, Boars Hill, OX1 5JX
Received 20 May 20215B Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9LS
Received 14 Mar 2018Land opposite Two Hoots, Littleworth Village, Littleworth, Faringdon, SN7 8ED
Received 2 Feb 202313 Fairthorne Way, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8EB
Received 22 Oct 202110 Yarnells Hill, Oxford, OX2 9BD
Received 6 Jan 2023The Old Corn Store, 19 Chapel Road, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8LE
Received 21 Mar 20222 Coxs Court, High Street, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8NQ
Received 31 Jul 2024Barn to the rear of Priors Court, Church Street, West Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0LW
Received 1 Aug 2018The Lindens, Old Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5JJ
Received 5 Jul 2021Records 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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