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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.
7,871 approved · 815 refused · 479 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Jul 2004 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Camp Cottage Upleadon Road Highleadon Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1HS
Received 4 Sept 2026Blaisdon Meadow Camp Site Blaisdon Lane Blaisdon GL17 0PN
Received 4 Sept 2026Land West Of Little Orchard Gloucester Road Hartpury Gloucestershire
Received 7 Sept 2026Land West Of Little Orchard Gloucester Road Hartpury Gloucestershire
Received 7 Sept 2026Hill House Unlawater Lane Newnham Gloucestershire GL14 1BJ
Received 7 Sept 2026Bay Tree House High Street Newnham Gloucestershire GL14 1BS
Received 7 Sept 2026Beracah House Gloucester Road Tutshill Chepstow NP16 7DH
Received 4 Sept 2026Strawberry Hill Court Strawberry Hill Newent Gloucestershire
Received 7 Sept 2026Land South Grid Reference E 361431 N 216230 High Beech Road The Pludds Ruardean Gloucestershire
Received 8 Sept 2026Land Grid Reference Easting 364751 Northing 217977 Mannings Road Drybrook Gloucestershire
Received 8 Sept 20264 Tiberius Avenue Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 5PD
Received 8 Sept 2026The Temple Old Monmouth Road Longhope Gloucestershire GL17 0NZ
Received 8 Sept 2026Barn Northwest Of Perrick Farm Northwood Green Gloucestershire
Received 8 Sept 202637 Foxes Bridge Road Cinderford Gloucestershire GL14 2PQ
Received 8 Sept 2026Bridgewood Church Road Longhope Gloucestershire GL17 0LG
Received 8 Sept 2026Building At Moors Farm Pleasant Stile Littledean Gloucestershire
Received 10 Sept 2026Ash Farm House Morse Lane Drybrook Gloucestershire GL17 9BE
Received 10 Sept 2026Yew Tree House Blakeney Hill Blakeney Gloucestershire GL15 4BS
Received 10 Sept 2026Barn At Grid Reference Easting 357526 Northing 206137 The Bearse St Briavels Gloucestershire
Received 10 Sept 2026Barns Stowe Grange Stowe Road Mork St Briavels Gloucestershire GL15 6QH
Received 10 Sept 202615 The Scarr Newent Gloucestershire GL18 1DQ
Received 10 Sept 2026Mile Bridge Dairy Stockwell Lane Aylburton Lydney Gloucestershire GL15 6DN
Received 10 Sept 2026Drews Farm Taynton Gloucester Gloucestershire GL19 3AN
Received 11 Sept 2026Land East Of Moorend Road Eldersfield Gloucester Gloucestershire
Received 11 Sept 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 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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