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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.
7,123 approved · 737 refused · 426 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Jul 2004 to 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hope Farm Cross Keys St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6TH
Received 22 Mar 2022Turnfield Barn Eastbach English Bicknor Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 7ET
Received 18 Mar 2022San Remo Folly Lane May Hill Longhope Gloucestershire GL17 0NP
Received 17 Mar 20226 Council Villas High Street Brierley Drybrook Gloucestershire GL17 9DL
Received 17 Mar 2022Flagstaff Cottage Flagstaff Ruardean Hill Drybrook Gloucestershire GL17 9AR
Received 22 Mar 2022Land Adjacent Old Railway Cutting Hawthorne Hill Newent Oxenhall GL18 1RH
Received 22 Mar 20229 Court Farm Huntley Road Tibberton Gloucestershire GL19 3AF
Received 22 Mar 2022Garage Bromley Road Ellwood Gloucestershire GL16 7LY
Received 23 Mar 20224 Bracken Close Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 5AH
Received 23 Mar 2022Little Close Red Ditch Lane Redmarley Gloucestershire GL19 3HT
Received 23 Mar 20221 Harts Farm Stud Chapel Lane Redmarley GL19 3JF
Received 23 Mar 2022Hartpury College Hartpury Gloucestershire GL19 3BE
Received 24 Mar 2022Woodland View Meadow Close Viney Hill Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 4NX
Received 24 Mar 2022Old Court House Townsend Mitcheldean Gloucestershire GL17 0BA
Received 23 Mar 2022Orchard Bungalow New Road Blakeney Gloucestershire GL15 4DD
Received 24 Mar 2022Brand Green Fruit Farm Brand Green Redmarley Gloucester Gloucestershire GL19 3JE
Received 24 Mar 2022Land Between The Pastrol & Whitegates Wintles Hill Westbury On Severn Gloucestershire GL14 1QB
Received 24 Mar 2022Day House Farm Tidenham Chepstow NP16 7LH
Received 25 Mar 2022Brook Farm Monmouth Road Longhope Gloucestershire GL17 0QD
Received 24 Mar 2022Farmland At Blakeney Newnham Road Blakeney
Received 25 Mar 202213 Bells Place Ruspidge Cinderford Gloucestershire GL14 3BA
Received 28 Mar 202233 Whittington Way Bream Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6AW
Received 28 Mar 2022Land To The North Of Castleford Hill Road Tutshill Chepstow NP16 7LF
Received 28 Mar 2022Springfield House Station Lane Longhope Gloucestershire GL17 0NA
Received 28 Mar 2022Records 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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