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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Cheltenham Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
501 approved · 147 refused · 202 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jul 2021 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Cheltenham College 138 Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7LD
Received 20 Dec 2024Cheltenham College 138 Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7LD
Received 20 Dec 2024Cheltenham College 138 Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7LD
Received 20 Dec 2024Cheltenham College 138 Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7LD
Received 20 Dec 202466 Bouncers Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5JN
Received 23 Dec 2024Malvern Priors Malvern Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 23 Dec 2024Car Park North Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 4DW
Received 23 Dec 20241 Croft Avenue Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8LF
Received 23 Dec 2024Ivy Cottage Ham Square Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6NF
Received 23 Dec 2024Ivy Cottage Ham Square Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6NF
Received 23 Dec 2024Camden Lodge Clarence Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2AU
Received 23 Dec 20242 Mornington Drive Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0BH
Received 23 Dec 2024Malvern Priors Malvern Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 23 Dec 2024239 London Road Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6HZ
Received 23 Dec 20245 Jersey Avenue Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2SZ
Received 23 Dec 20247 St Lukes Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7HS
Received 24 Dec 202423 Selkirk Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2HJ
Received 30 Dec 202423 Selkirk Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2HJ
Received 30 Dec 2024Glenfall Cottage Ham Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6NJ
Received 30 Dec 2024The Co-Operative Funeralcare Ground Floor Grosvenor House 72 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 6QL
Received 30 Dec 20242 King George Close Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7RW
Received 30 Dec 202419 Walnut Close Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3AF
Received 30 Dec 202491 Ravensgate Road Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8NS
Received 30 Dec 20247 Bibury Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 6AZ
Received 30 Dec 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Cheltenham Borough 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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