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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 Forest of Dean District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,598 approved · 675 refused · 375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Jul 2004 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oakfield Hill Street Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 5HE
Received 18 Dec 2020Land At Tiberius Avenue Lydney Gloucestershire
Received 21 Dec 2020Newent Lake Lakeside Newent Gloucestershire
Received 21 Dec 2020Newent Sewage Treatment Works Cleeve Mill Lane Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1ES
Received 21 Dec 2020Lower Viney Farm Cottage Viney Hill Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 4LT
Received 21 Dec 2020Brook Farm Brook Lane Adsett Westbury On Severn Gloucestershire GL14 1NE
Received 22 Dec 2020Old Pike House Townsend Mitcheldean Gloucestershire GL17 0BE
Received 22 Dec 2020Blue Barn The Hudnalls St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6RT
Received 22 Dec 202018 Albert Road Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 8DZ
Received 22 Dec 2020The Furrow The Village Dymock Gloucestershire GL18 2AH
Received 22 Dec 2020Fernley House Pendock Road Redmarley Gloucester Gloucestershire GL19 3LG
Received 23 Dec 2020Mardene Hillside Road Drybrook Gloucestershire GL17 9HN
Received 23 Dec 202041 Staunton Road Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 8EA
Received 23 Dec 2020Sheepcot Farm Miss Graces Lane Tidenham Chase Chepstow NP16 7JR
Received 23 Dec 2020Land At Ormerod Road Sedbury Chepstow
Received 23 Dec 2020Underwood The Purples Coalway Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 7JL
Received 23 Dec 2020Land East Of Rodley Manor Way Lydney Gloucestershire
Received 24 Dec 2020Hillyfields Tewkesbury Road Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1LG
Received 24 Dec 2020Former St Whites Primary School Land At St Whites Road Cinderford GL14 3DH
Received 29 Dec 2020Hazeldine Cottage Bromsberrow Road Redmarley Gloucester Gloucestershire GL19 3JU
Received 31 Dec 2020Hazeldine Cottage Bromsberrow Road Redmarley Gloucester Gloucestershire GL19 3JU
Received 31 Dec 2020May Farm Pendock Road Redmarley Gloucester Gloucestershire GL19 3LG
Received 4 Jan 2021Silverwood House Main Road Woolaston Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6PJ
Received 4 Jan 2021Wheal Cottage Bowson Square Bream Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6LB
Received 4 Jan 2021Records 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 Forest of Dean District 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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