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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
11,294 approved · 1,001 refused · 1,186 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former LETP and Sewage Farm, Curie Avenue, Harwell Oxford, DIDCOT, OX11 0QQ
Received 1 Mar 2017Land to East of Milton Hill, Abingdon
Received 23 Aug 2021Wansdyke, High Street, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9UQ
Received 9 Feb 2023Land at Ashfields Lane and A338, East Hanney, OX12 0HN
Received 5 Feb 2021Lower Lodge Farm, Charney Road, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5HW
Received 13 Oct 2025Highwell, Warborough Road, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9LE
Received 22 Feb 2021St Marys Lodge, Challow Road, WANTAGE, OX12 9AU
Received 16 Jan 2017The Old Rectory, Road Running Between Hinton Manor And Duxford, Hinton Waldrist, Faringdon, SN7 8SA
Received 13 May 2025Coseners House, 15-16 Abbey Close, Abingdon, OX14 3JD
Received 30 May 2022Land at Crab Hill, Land north of A417, Wantage
Received 1 Mar 20181 Challow Marsh Cottages, East Challow, Wantage, OX12 0ED
Received 28 Sept 2022Blandys Farm, Bassett Road, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9LJ
Received 27 Jan 201736 Westminster Way, Oxford, OX2 0LW
Received 10 Jun 202194 Spring Road, Abingdon, OX14 1AX
Received 16 Jan 2023Aldi, Wootton Road, Abingdon-on-Thames
Received 11 May 202225 Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, ABINGDON, OX14 4NJ
Received 6 Jun 2017Rosemarys Cottage, Childrey, Wantage, OX12 9UT
Received 20 Jun 2022Mulberry Cottage, Littleworth, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8ED
Received 27 Sept 2021St Catherines, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JT
Received 27 Sept 201629 London Street, Faringdon, SN7 7AG
Received 1 Oct 2025A4130, Milton Heights, Didcot
Received 19 Feb 2026Land Off The Lynch, East Hendred
Received 7 Sept 2018Land at Crab Hill, Land north of A417 and east of A338., Wantage, OX12 7GQ
Received 9 Aug 20235 Millets Farm Cottages, Garford, Abingdon, OX13 5PD
Received 26 May 2022Records 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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