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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
11,562 approved · 1,008 refused · 1,206 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Coulings Close, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8JH
Received 29 Sept 2022Rosewood, Orchard Road, Buckland, Faringdon, SN7 8QW
Received 31 Oct 202323 Cumnor Rise Road, Oxford, OX2 9HD
Received 16 May 2022Meadfleet, 16 Woodlands Brook, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8FS
Received 5 Mar 202617 Shannon Close, Grove, Wantage, OX12 7PT
Received 8 Sept 2025Land East of The Acre, Cumnor Hill, OXFORD, OX2 9HX
Received 6 Jul 20161 Kingstone Farmyard, Kingstone Winslow, Swindon, Oxfordshire, SN6 8NJ
Received 15 Nov 2022Land at Fullamoor Plantation, Clifton Hampden, Abingdon, OX14 3DD
Received 13 Jul 2017Rockley Farm House 16 Appleton Road Cumnor Oxford OX2 9QH
Received 10 Apr 2026South Hide, 31 High Street, Stanford In The Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8LH
Received 4 Feb 202250 Appleton Road, Cumnor, OX2 9QH
Received 8 Sept 2022Sherwood, Little Howe Close, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 3AJ
Received 29 Aug 2018White Cottage, Cat Street, East Hendred, WANTAGE, OX12 8JT
Received 6 Mar 20179 Boucher Close, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0NE
Received 9 Nov 2021Dragon Hill, Woolstone Road, Uffington, Faringdon, SN7 7RE
Received 21 Jan 202275 Mably Grove, Wantage, OX12 9XW
Received 1 Dec 202410 London Road, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9NU
Received 26 Jun 201853 Besselsleigh Road, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6DX
Received 30 Oct 201838 Vickers Way, Grove, Wantage, OX12 0GZ
Received 7 Nov 202423 Bury Street, ABINGDON, OX14 3QT
Received 23 Jun 2017Bayllols Manor, High Street, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0EY
Received 3 Nov 2025Next to bus stop, Junction of Church Walk & High Street, Shrivenham, Oxon
Received 11 Dec 2017Heverlee Hinksey Hill Oxford OX1 5BE
Received 20 Jul 202611 Compton Drive, ABINGDON, OX14 2DD
Received 17 Jan 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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