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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.
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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11,254 approved · 1,000 refused · 1,183 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31 Park Road, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7BP
Received 5 Aug 2016Land adjacent to the Eastern By-pass Road, Oxford
Received 29 Jan 2021Aptuit, 117 Innovation Drive, Milton Park, Milton, OX14 4RZ
Received 26 Aug 2021Monks Farm, Townsend, Grove, OX12 0AH
Received 5 May 2022Wootton Business Park, Besselsleigh Road, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6FD
Received 22 Sept 202212 Church Green, Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8HU
Received 17 Dec 2024St James C of E School, The Causeway, East Hanney, OX12 0JN
Received 24 Aug 2016Former Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road, Grove
Received 11 Jun 2024The Hinds Head, Witney Road, Kingston Bagpuize, ABINGDON, OX13 5AN
Received 30 Aug 2017Radley Village Hall Gooseacre Radley Abingdon OX14 3BL
Received 17 Jun 2026Pennyhooks Farm, Pennyhooks Lane, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8EX
Received 18 May 2021Grove Business Park, Downsview Road, Wantage, OX12 9FF
Received 2 Aug 20239 Delamare Way, Oxford, OX2 9HZ
Received 9 Oct 201812 Rolls Court, Wantage, OX12 9AE
Received 13 Jun 2022Nr Hartley House, 22 Galley Field, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3RT
Received 9 Aug 2022Grove C Of E School, North Drive, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7PW
Received 22 Oct 20256 Ham Corner, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0FT
Received 22 Jul 2025Roseland, Great Coxwell, Faringdon, SN7 7LZ
Received 7 Nov 2023100 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9BX
Received 29 Oct 2025Orchard Corner, Ford Lane, East Hendred, Oxfordshire
Received 27 Oct 2016Apple Tree House, Locks Lane, Wantage, OX12 9DB
Received 28 Apr 2023Fairacres, Marcham Road, Abingdon, OX14 1TP
Received 11 Mar 20244 Hope Way, OXFORD, OX2 9RZ
Received 9 Feb 2017Laburnum House, South Street, Letcombe Regis, Oxon, OX12 9JY
Received 6 Aug 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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