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 Forest of Dean District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,980 approved · 723 refused · 408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Dean Hall Pleasant Stile Littledean Cinderford Gloucestershire GL14 3NR
Received 11 Oct 2021Dean Hall Pleasant Stile Littledean Cinderford Gloucestershire GL14 3NR
Received 11 Oct 2021Rough Winds Coleford Road Bream Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6EU
Received 11 Oct 2021Silverwood House Main Road Woolaston Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6PJ
Received 8 Oct 2021Unit Rear Of 32 Ford House Road The Scarr Newent GL18 1LQ
Received 11 Oct 2021Westminster Manor 5 Covent Garden Redmarley Gloucester Gloucestershire GL19 3LH
Received 12 Oct 2021Land Adjacent To The Old Post Office Woodland Road Christchurch Coleford GL16 7NR
Received 12 Oct 2021Swanpool Barn Kents Green Tibberton Gloucester Gloucestershire GL19 3AJ
Received 12 Oct 2021Fox Cottage Station Road Milkwall Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 7LJ
Received 11 Oct 2021Morse Farm Morse Road Drybrook Gloucestershire GL17 9AJ
Received 12 Oct 202116 Park Road Five Acres Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 7QS
Received 12 Oct 2021Pastors Hill House Pastors Hill Bream Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6NA
Received 12 Oct 2021The Homestead Bakers Piece Road Ruardean Woodside Ruardean Gloucestershire GL17 9YL
Received 8 Oct 2021Playing Field Steam Mills Road Cinderford GL14 3HY
Received 12 Oct 2021Land At Mannings Farm High Street Drybrook Gloucestershire
Received 12 Oct 2021Glebe Orchard Cliffords Mesne Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1JN
Received 13 Oct 2021Middleton Hall Woolaston Grange Woolaston Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6PP
Received 13 Oct 2021Middleton Hall Woolaston Grange Woolaston Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6PP
Received 13 Oct 2021Land At 5 Victoria Road Coleford GL16 8DR
Received 13 Oct 2021Surgery Smithville Close St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6TN
Received 14 Oct 2021Beech House Park Lane St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6QX
Received 14 Oct 202162 Kimberley Drive Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 5AG
Received 14 Oct 20216 Woodcroft Terrace Woodcroft Chepstow Gloucestershire NP16 7QA
Received 13 Oct 202192 Littledean Hill Road Cinderford Gloucestershire GL14 2BL
Received 14 Oct 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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