Planning appeals in Vale of White Horse
Between 2021 and 2025 the Planning Inspectorate decided 134 appeals against Vale of White Horse planning refusals. 37.3% were allowed, overturning the council's decision. The national average is 31.1%.
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Vale of White Horse sits towards the top of the national table. Refusals here are overturned on appeal noticeably more often than in most of England, which suggests appealable refusals are being made and that a well-argued case has a genuine chance. It also makes it worth scrutinising a Vale of White Horse refusal carefully before accepting it.
An appeal only happens when an applicant chooses to challenge a refusal, so this is the overturn rate among refusals that were appealed, not the share of all Vale of White Horse refusals that were wrong. Read it as a measure of where appealing has paid off.
Route matters: how appeals get decided
Nationally, appeals decided after a hearing or inquiry succeed far more often than those decided on written representations. Bigger, better-argued cases tend to take the longer routes.
| Procedure | Appeals decided | Overturned |
|---|---|---|
| Inquiry | 1,013 | 63.7% |
| Hearing | 2,338 | 46.1% |
| Written Representations | 67,591 | 30.0% |
Councils with similar overturn rates
- Barnet - 37.4% overturned
- Dudley - 37.1% overturned
- Eastbourne - 37.5% overturned
- Greenwich - 37.1% overturned
- Hart - 37.7% overturned
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Method: allowed vs dismissed planning-merits appeal decisions published by the Planning Inspectorate, January 2021 to December 2025. Withdrawn, invalid and split decisions are excluded; councils need at least 40 decided appeals to be ranked. The confidence interval is a Wilson 95% interval. Figures relate to the local planning authority area, not the wider county where they differ.
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