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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11,185 approved · 996 refused · 1,175 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Upstones, Berry Lane, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9QJ
Received 24 Aug 202267 Milton Road Sutton Courtenay Abingdon OX14 4BX
Received 7 Aug 2026Land at Harwell Campus
Received 26 Apr 2018Corner Cottage, High Street, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9UE
Received 26 Mar 2026Kingston Bagpuize Business Park, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5AS
Received 19 May 2022Winterbourne, Stream Road, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9JG
Received 23 May 2018Mill Stream Court, Access To Mill Stream Court, Abingdon, OX14 5XA
Received 21 Dec 2020Land at Baulking Lane, Baulking Lane, Baulking, Wantage, SN7 8NR
Received 18 May 2018Haugh House, Church Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5DX
Received 14 Feb 2023Tom Browns School Museum, Broad Street, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RA
Received 21 May 201819 Grahame Close, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9QE
Received 18 Jan 2024Land at 95 Drayton Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon
Received 19 Jul 201879A Oxford Road, ABINGDON, OX14 2AB
Received 16 Sept 201647 St Johns Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2HA
Received 25 Mar 2022Hills Yard, Buscot, Faringdon, SN7 8BY
Received 13 Aug 2024Horselees House, Road Through Great Coxwell, Great Coxwell, FARINGDON, SN7 7NG
Received 14 Jun 201752 Park Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DG
Received 18 Feb 20213 Kiln Close, Stanford in the Vale, SN7 8FJ
Received 22 Jun 2018Winterbourne, 57 Wootton Village, Boars Hill, Oxfordshire, OX1 5HP
Received 10 Dec 2018Waterside Cottage, Stowhill, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9XQ
Received 5 Jan 2018Willow House, Hids Copse Road, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9JJ
Received 6 Nov 2024Land to the west of Sir Frank Williams Way, Great Western Park, Didcot
Received 19 Dec 2022Maltravers Manor, West Street, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9UJ
Received 18 Sept 2018Foundry Barn, Marlborough Street, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7JP
Received 13 Jul 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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