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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.
525 approved · 157 refused · 214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jul 2021 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 St Pauls Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 4EP
Received 24 Sept 202537 - 39 Winchcombe Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2LZ
Received 25 Sept 2025Fiddlers Green Lodge Pheasant Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 0XX
Received 25 Sept 20256 Undercliff Avenue Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9AB
Received 25 Sept 202572 King William Drive Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7RP
Received 25 Sept 2025Oakley Farm Priors Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5AQ
Received 25 Sept 202526 Collum End Rise Leckhampton Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0PB
Received 25 Sept 2025Mercian Court Park Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 25 Sept 2025Brizen Lodge Farm Lane Leckhampton Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0NN
Received 26 Sept 202529 Leighton Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6BD
Received 26 Sept 202527 Queens Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2LX
Received 26 Sept 2025Oakley Farm Priors Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5AQ
Received 29 Sept 202553 School Road Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8BP
Received 29 Sept 202517 Roberts Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5DH
Received 29 Sept 202516 Southfield Close Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9LF
Received 29 Sept 2025106 Evesham Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 29 Sept 202598 Sheldons Court Winchcombe Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2NR
Received 29 Sept 2025Flat 2 Newton House 18 Lansdown Crescent Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2LF
Received 29 Sept 2025Basement Flat 22 Evesham Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2AB
Received 29 Sept 2025Basement Flat 22 Evesham Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2AB
Received 29 Sept 20255 Merriville Gardens Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 8JD
Received 29 Sept 2025Cheltenham Civic Society Parmoor 26 Cambray Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 1JN
Received 29 Sept 202531 Campion Park Up Hatherley Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 3WA
Received 29 Sept 202530A Hales Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6SE
Received 29 Sept 2025Records 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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