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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
11,254 approved · 1,000 refused · 1,183 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jul 2016 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Phase 8 Grove Airfield Denchworth Road Grove Wantage
Received 14 May 202616 Mill Road, Abingdon, OX14 5NS
Received 28 Mar 2022St Helen's Church Abingdon, Parish Office, St Helen's Court, Abingdon, OX14 5BS
Received 27 Apr 2021Land at Volunteer Way, Faringdon, SN7 7YR
Received 18 May 2021Cobweb Buildings, The Lane, Lyford, WANTAGE, OX12 0EE
Received 18 Sept 20174-5 The Green, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4AE
Received 28 Jul 2023Unit 1, Henry Blake Way, FARINGDON, SN7 7GQ
Received 22 Dec 20177 St Michaels House, Priory Road, Wantage, OX12 9DE
Received 15 Aug 2018Flittermouse Barn, School Lane, Milton, OX14 4EQ
Received 23 Jul 2024Appletree Barn, The Causeway, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6SQ
Received 29 Aug 2018The Anchorage adjacent to The Vale Cottage, High Street, Uffington, Farringdon, SN7 7RP
Received 5 Jun 20175 New Row, Buckland, Buckland Road, Faringdon, SN7 8QN
Received 30 Aug 2024Westlands, 13 Cumnor Hill, OXFORD, OX2 9EU
Received 22 Sept 2017Land at Grove Road, Wantage
Received 6 Sept 202425 Daisy Bank, ABINGDON, OX14 3TW
Received 4 Jun 2018Pentreen, Stream Road, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9JG
Received 11 Oct 202482 St Gabriels, Wantage, OX12 8FL
Received 17 Jul 201847 The Motte, Abingdon, OX14 3NZ
Received 14 Oct 2021131 Pinnocks Way, OXFORD, OX2 9DF
Received 2 May 20171 Stainswick Lane, Shrivenham, SWINDON, SN6 8DU
Received 27 Jul 2017Land at Former Didcot A Power Station, north of Milton Road, Didcot
Received 22 Sept 2022Conduit House, Albert Park, Park Crescent, Abingdon, OX14 1DE
Received 16 Nov 202129 Lansdowne Road, Dry Sandford, ABINGDON, OX13 6EA
Received 23 Aug 2017Land to the south of High Street, Drayton
Received 6 Dec 2016Records 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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