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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
11,585 approved · 1,010 refused · 1,208 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Buscot Park House, Buscot Park, Buscot Park, Faringdon, SN7 8BU
Received 16 Feb 2021Stone Farm, Majors Road, Longcot, Faringdon, SN7 7TR
Received 13 Dec 2023Locktons Farmhouse, Church Lane, Harwell, Oxon, OX11 0EZ
Received 10 Nov 2021Land to the south of Harleigh Reading Road Rowstock
Received 12 Jun 202617 Davies Edge, Marcham, Abingdon, OX13 6TZ
Received 7 Feb 202424 Hazel Road, Botley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 9LF
Received 8 Mar 2017Normanby Cottage, Claypits Lane, Shrivenham, Oxon, SN6 8AH
Received 22 Mar 2022Fallowfields, Faringdon Road, Southmoor, Abingdon, OX13 5BH
Received 15 Nov 20219 Tatham Road Abingdon OX14 1QB
Received 24 Aug 2026Land adjacent to Fernham Gate, Faringdon
Received 23 Nov 201732 Caldecott Road, Abingdon, OX14 5HB
Received 9 Aug 20214 West Way Square, Oxford, OX2 9TE
Received 17 Feb 2026Mill House, Locks Lane, Wantage, OX12 9EH
Received 12 Jan 20269 Woodley Close, Abingdon, OX14 1YH
Received 20 May 20241 Rose Villas, Faringdon Road, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5AQ
Received 27 Oct 2021Orchard Farm, Hanney Road, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6AP
Received 20 Feb 20239, Cothill, Abingdon, OX13 6JN
Received 6 Jun 2024Upton Manor, High Street, Upton, Didcot, OX11 9JE
Received 8 Jun 202312 Kingfisher Close, Abingdon, OX14 5NP
Received 20 Apr 2018Orchard Cottage, Summertown, East Hanney, Wantage, OX12 0JG
Received 20 Oct 2025Ridgeway Cottage, Bakery Lane, Letcombe Regis, WANTAGE, OX12 9JW
Received 17 Oct 2016Land north of Copenhagen Drive, Abingdon, OX14 1RF
Received 3 Jan 2024The Hinds Head, Witney Road, Kingston Bagpuize, OX13 5AN
Received 21 Feb 20172 Gloucester Street, Faringdon, SN7 7HY
Received 19 Nov 2025Records 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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