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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
11,400 approved · 1,006 refused · 1,199 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 Hawkins Way, Wootton, ABINGDON, OX13 6LA
Received 13 Mar 2018Land at Crab Hill - Phase 6, Land north of A417 and east of A338, Wantage
Received 20 Aug 2024225 South Avenue, ABINGDON, OX14 1QT
Received 3 Jul 2017The Barn, Church Street, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4NJ
Received 29 Sept 2023Matthew Arnold School, Arnolds Way, Cumnor Hill, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9JE
Received 20 Jul 2021OS 62 Cumnor Hill Oxford OX2 9HB
Received 27 May 2026Mill Stream Court, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 5XA
Received 26 Sept 2022Sabine Valley Farm Barns, Cumnor Road, Farmoor, Oxford, OX2 9NS
Received 2 Jun 2025Land at North of Botley Road to North Hinksey, North Hinksey, South Hinksey & Kennington
Received 30 Sept 201631 Church Green, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8HU
Received 26 Nov 20216 Barfleur Close, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2RF
Received 3 May 2018Abingdon Preparatory School, Kingston Road, Frilford, Abingdon, OX13 5NX
Received 12 Aug 2021Holloway Cottage, The Holloway, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0LS
Received 6 Apr 202215 Spring Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1AH
Received 15 Feb 2017The Old Rectory 29 Section Of B4019 Running Through Coleshill Coleshill Swindon SN6 7PR
Received 16 Apr 202696 Netherton Road, Appleton, Abingdon, OX13 5LA
Received 10 Feb 2023Mill House, Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, OX14 4NH
Received 15 Nov 2018Saddleworth House, South Street, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JY
Received 13 Sept 2016Dutch Barn, Priors Court Farm, West Hanney, OX12 0DN
Received 8 Feb 20189 Kennington Road, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5NZ
Received 10 Jul 2024Ardmore, Stanton Road, Oxford, OX2 9AY
Received 2 Aug 2022Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd, Wantage, Oxon, OX12 0DQ
Received 3 Sept 2025Willowbrook, Church Lane, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0EZ
Received 2 Jan 202410 Radley Road, Abingdon, OX14 3PQ
Received 17 Jan 2017Records 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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