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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
11,355 approved · 1,005 refused · 1,193 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
23 Digging Lane Fyfield Abingdon OX13 5LX
Received 8 Jun 20261 Bowyer Road, Abingdon, OX14 2EW
Received 10 Nov 202210 Bridges Close, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 5PF
Received 11 May 20217 Westminster Court, Barcote Park, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8PP
Received 5 Dec 2018Land south of road 4 & West of road 6, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot
Received 13 Jun 201827 Belmont, Wantage, OX12 9AS
Received 4 Nov 202124 Market Place, Faringdon, SN7 7HU
Received 20 Sept 2023108 Cumnor Hill, Oxford, OX2 9HY
Received 9 Dec 20222 Stainswick Lane, Shrivenham, SWINDON, SN6 8DU
Received 21 Sept 2016Cedar Glen, Harris's Lane, Longworth, Abingdon, OX13 5EH
Received 18 Apr 2023Land to the north west of Radley, Radley
Received 28 Feb 2025The Bothy Wytham Oxford OX2 8QQ
Received 2 Sept 202664 Stockham Park, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9HQ
Received 21 Jul 20176 High Street, Abingdon, OX14 5AZ
Received 22 Sept 2022Beaulieu Court Cottage, Sunningwell, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6RB
Received 31 Jul 2017Tilsley Park Dunmore Road Abingdon OX14 1PU
Received 25 Aug 2026Manor Barn, St Lawrence Road, South Hinksey, Oxford, OX1 5AZ
Received 27 Sept 2018Shrivenham Hundred Business Park, Majors Road, Watchfield, Swindon, SN6 8TZ
Received 13 Jan 2023Cornerbrook, Mill Lane, East Hendred, OX12 8JS
Received 4 Oct 2018Bridge Farm Quarry, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4P
Received 21 Aug 2018Land to the East of Highworth Road, Highworth Road, Shrivenham
Received 25 May 2018Westcot Farm, Westcot Lane, Westcot, Wantage, OX12 9QA
Received 26 Jul 20188 Brunel Crescent, Grove, WANTAGE, OX12 0NS
Received 6 Mar 20182 Chilton Field Way, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0SZ
Received 30 Oct 2024Records 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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