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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Salford City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Salford website
21,455 approved · 2,708 refused · 1,410 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 23 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
The Spinney , 482 Walkden Road, Worsley, M28 2WH
Received Not publishedLand Surrounding , Stanley Street Bound By Trinity Way, Irwell Street And , River Irwell, M3 5DA
Received Not publishedDerwent Street, Salford, M5 4SW
Received Not published16 St Georges Crescent, Worsley, Salford, M28 3AN
Received Not published10 Lawn Drive, Swinton, M27 5SA
Received Not published76 Riverside, Salford, M7 1PN
Received Not published2 Grassfield Avenue, Salford, M7 1HW
Received Not published23 Brougham Street, Worsley, Salford, M28 0SW
Received Not published25 Cavendish Road, Salford, M7 4WP
Received Not publishedTwo Parcels Of Land Known As "Trinity Islands", Bounded By The River Irwell, Regent Road, Water Street, Trinity Way And The Railway, Manchester , M3 4JW
Received Not published5 Gorse Road, Swinton, Salford, M27 5QZ
Received Not published14 Roughlee Avenue, Swinton, Salford, M27 0JP
Received Not published43 Old Hall Road, Salford, M7 4JF
Received Not published244 Manchester Road East, Little Hulton, Worsley, Salford, M38 9WQ
Received Not published5 Westmeade Road, Worsley, Salford, M28 3GG
Received Not published36 Oaklands Road, Swinton, Salford, M27 0ED
Received Not published402 Lower Broughton Road, Salford, M7 2GD
Received Not publishedMoss House Farm, Moss House Lane, Worsley, Manchester, M28 1JB
Received Not publishedPavement At Great Cheetham Street East, Opposite Junction Basten Drive, Great Cheetham Street East, Salford, M7 4UJ
Received Not publishedPavement At Great Cheetham Street East, Opposite Junction Basten Drive, Great Cheetham Street East, Salford, M7 4UJ
Received Not published27 Fairmount Road, Swinton, Salford, M27 0EP
Received Not published70 Cavendish Road, Eccles, Salford, M30 9EF
Received Not published77 New Lane, Eccles, Salford, M30 7JL
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To, 8 Walshaw Drive, Swinton, M27 5PN
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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 Salford City 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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