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.
577 approved · 184 refused · 230 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jul 2021 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Leckhampton Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0AZ
Received 2 Jul 2026Stirling House College Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire
Received 2 Jul 2026First Floor Flat 12 London Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6DF
Received 2 Jul 202628 Albert Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2QX
Received 2 Jul 202684 Rosehill Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6SJ
Received 2 Jul 202660 Tennyson Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 7BY
Received 3 Jul 2026190 Leckhampton Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 0AE
Received 3 Jul 20268 St Stephens Manor Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 3GF
Received 3 Jul 202627 Tivoli Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2TD
Received 3 Jul 2026Wok And Tea 106 High Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 1EG
Received 6 Jul 2026Enterprise House Arle Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 8LZ
Received 6 Jul 202619 Loweswater Close Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 3BA
Received 6 Jul 2026Radella 5 Thorncliffe Drive Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 6PY
Received 6 Jul 2026Supafoot Ltd Unit 10 The Courtyard Montpellier Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 1SR
Received 6 Jul 2026The Priory 37 London Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6HA
Received 6 Jul 2026116 Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7JX
Received 6 Jul 2026The Garden House West Drive Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 4LB
Received 6 Jul 2026McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Kingsditch Retail Park Kingsditch Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9PX
Received 6 Jul 202619 Hesters Way Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 0DU
Received 7 Jul 20264 Park Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2QR
Received 7 Jul 20264 Park Place Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2QR
Received 7 Jul 20261 Grevil Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 7JB
Received 7 Jul 202640 Churchill Drive Charlton Kings Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 6JJ
Received 7 Jul 2026Christchurch Vicarage Malvern Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2NU
Received 7 Jul 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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