Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
573 approved · 181 refused · 230 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Woodlands Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 3RU
Received 27 Mar 2026Lansdown Lodge 68 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 6QL
Received 27 Mar 2026Cheltenham General Hospital Sandford Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7AN
Received 27 Mar 2026Cheltenham General Hospital Sandford Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7AN
Received 27 Mar 2026Cheltenham General Hospital Sandford Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7AN
Received 27 Mar 2026Cheltenham General Hospital Sandford Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7AN
Received 27 Mar 202618 Guinevere Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 7EF
Received 27 Mar 2026University Of Gloucestershire The Park Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2RH
Received 27 Mar 2026Costa Coffee 24 Promenade Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 1LR
Received 27 Mar 2026Osborne Lodge 99 The Park Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 27 Mar 2026118 Warden Hill Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 3EH
Received 27 Mar 20264 Peregrine Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0LR
Received 30 Mar 2026Barbican Ashley Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6NS
Received 30 Mar 20266 Townsend Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9HD
Received 30 Mar 202611 Wessex Drive Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5AF
Received 30 Mar 2026Ash Lodge 63 The Park Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2RZ
Received 30 Mar 2026The Hayes Southam Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3NQ
Received 30 Mar 202632 St Michaels Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 3RR
Received 30 Mar 2026117 Ashlands Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 0DJ
Received 30 Mar 202653 Royal Well Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3ET
Received 31 Mar 2026Douro Lodge Lansdown Crescent Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2LF
Received 31 Mar 2026211 Hewlett Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6UF
Received 31 Mar 20267 Cobblestone Way Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 8PW
Received 31 Mar 2026The Model Engineers Ground Hatherley Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 31 Mar 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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