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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.
7,195 approved · 746 refused · 431 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cross Keys Garage High Street Bream Gloucestershire GL15 6EH
Received 1 Aug 2022Walnut Tree Cottage Morse Road Drybrook Gloucestershire GL17 9AL
Received 2 Aug 2022The Bungalow Little Hoggins The Bearse St Briavels Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6QU
Received 2 Aug 2022Whitemead Forest Park Folly Road Parkend Lydney GL15 4JF
Received 2 Aug 2022Barns At Yew Tree Farm Main Road Huntley Gloucester GL19 3EA
Received 2 Aug 2022Bushyard Court Farm Coleford Road St Briavels Gloucestershire GL15 6TW
Received 2 Aug 20222 The Stables Southend Lane Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1JD
Received 2 Aug 2022Bower Barn 31 Culver Street Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1DB
Received 2 Aug 202227 Edenwall Road Milkwall Gloucestershire GL16 7LA
Received 2 Aug 2022Bridge House Blaisdon Longhope Gloucestershire GL17 0AH
Received 3 Aug 2022The Royal Forest Factory Rock Lane Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 8JB
Received 3 Aug 2022Brooklyn Millend Blakeney Gloucestershire GL15 4ED
Received 3 Aug 2022Poolway Farm Gloucester Road Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 7QA
Received 3 Aug 2022Land To The West Of Blakemore Park Little London Gloucestershire GL17 0PH
Received 3 Aug 2022Taynton Farm Shop Hownhall Taynton Gloucestershire GL19 3AW
Received 4 Aug 2022The Rectory High Street Ruardean Gloucestershire GL17 9US
Received 4 Aug 2022Post Office Ledbury Road Staunton Gloucestershire GL19 3QA
Received 4 Aug 2022Foxes Moon Palmers Flat Coalway Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 7HT
Received 4 Aug 202217 Gloucester Road Coleford Gloucestershire GL16 8BH
Received 4 Aug 2022Chancefield (formerly The Old Nursery) Boughspring Lane Tidenham Chase Chepstow Tidenham NP16 7JL
Received 5 Aug 2022Hill Ash House Ledbury Road Dymock Gloucestershire GL18 2DB
Received 5 Aug 2022Chapel Pitch, The Old Chapel Pool Hill Road Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1LF
Received 5 Aug 2022Oak Farm Ross Road English Bicknor Gloucestershire GL16 7PA
Received 8 Aug 2022Bojean Grange Court Road Adsett Westbury On Severn Gloucestershire GL14 1PL
Received 8 Aug 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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