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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
11,469 approved · 1,008 refused · 1,200 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adjoining Drayton Road, Milton, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4EU
Received 8 Aug 20161 Nuneham Square, Abingdon, OX14 1EH
Received 8 Aug 2024Land to the north of the Meads, Wantage
Received 12 Dec 201811 Haines Court, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6PN
Received 15 May 202473 Pinnocks Way, Botley, Oxford, OX2 9DD
Received 13 May 202166 Fogwell Road, Oxford, OX2 9SD
Received 11 Jun 2021Sandford Hydro, Sandford-on-Thames Weir, Kennington, Oxfordshire
Received 20 Feb 2024Abingdon School, Park Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DE
Received 17 Sept 202529 Wytham View, Oxford, OX2 9SP
Received 26 Feb 2025St Marys Lodge, Challow Road, WANTAGE, OX12 9DH
Received 9 Feb 2017Apple Cottage, Oldfield Farm, Baulking, FARINGDON, SN7 8NS
Received 17 Aug 20171 Priory Lane, Marcham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6NY
Received 18 Jan 20186 Manor Green, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0DQ
Received 21 Dec 2021Woodbridge House, Old Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5JQ
Received 12 Mar 2025Former Grove Airfield West of Grove, To the West of Newlands Drive, Land North of Denchworth Road
Received 1 Sept 2022Bigwood Caravan Park, Sugworth Lane, Radley, Oxfordshire
Received 17 Jul 201825 West St Helen Street, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 5BL
Received 11 Jan 20243 & 5 High Street, Cumnor, Oxford, OX2 9PE
Received 19 Mar 2025Garth Cottage, Little Coxwell, Faringdon, SN7 7LW
Received 21 Aug 2024Byways, Cothill Road, Cothill, Abingdon, OX13 6QQ
Received 4 Feb 2022Land adjacent to Fernham Gate, Faringdon
Received 8 Mar 2024Zeta Thomson Avenue Harwell Oxford Didcot OX11 0GD
Received 28 Jul 20262 The Quarry, Sunningwell, Abingdon, OX13 6RA
Received 19 Sept 202513 South Avenue, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1QR
Received 13 Sept 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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