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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.
564 approved · 179 refused · 229 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jul 2021 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
212 Hewlett Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6UJ
Received 26 Jan 2026Outram Lodge 90 Malden Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2BS
Received 26 Jan 2026Freedom House 2 Rutherford Way Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9TU
Received 27 Jan 2026Glenfall House Mill Lane Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL54 4EP
Received 27 Jan 20263 Vineries Close Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0NU
Received 27 Jan 202611 Hamilton Street Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8HN
Received 27 Jan 20262 Langton Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8HW
Received 27 Jan 202612 Willowherb Close Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5LP
Received 27 Jan 20262 Westdown Gardens Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6AY
Received 28 Jan 202667 Church Street Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8AT
Received 28 Jan 202620 Cleevelands Drive Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 4QB
Received 28 Jan 202615 Tayberry Grove Up Hatherley Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 3WF
Received 28 Jan 2026Pippins Newcourt Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9AZ
Received 28 Jan 2026Open Space At Fernleigh Crescent Up Hatherley Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 28 Jan 2026Open Land At Long Mynd Avenue Up Hatherley Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 28 Jan 202630 Ewlyn Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7PB
Received 28 Jan 20262 Hillfort Close Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0JS
Received 28 Jan 202683 Painswick Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2EX
Received 28 Jan 20268 Larch Rise Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0PY
Received 29 Jan 2026Land At West Cheltenham Southern Parcel Fiddlers Green Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 29 Jan 202618 Harrington Drive Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 6ER
Received 29 Jan 2026The Co-Operative Funeralcare Ground Floor Grosvenor House 72 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 6QL
Received 29 Jan 2026Vicarage Malvern Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2NU
Received 29 Jan 2026Flat 2 2 Tivoli Lawn 8 Tivoli Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2TG
Received 29 Jan 2026Records 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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