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 Sheffield City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
331 approved · 39 refused · 6 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Jan 1975 to 16 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Council maps may include boundaries missing from our collection.
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Sheffield City Council HMO Article 4 boundary · checked 14 Sept 2026 · Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.
Land At Waltham Gardens Sothall Sheffield
Received 10 Dec 2003Land Between Manchester Road Ridal Croft Park Grove And Park Drive Way Stocksbridge Sheffield
Received 2 Aug 1988122 Graham Road Sheffield S10 3GQ
Received 8 Mar 198917 Stumperlowe Crescent Road Sheffield S10 3PS
Received 25 Sept 1989Brincliffe House 90 Osborne Road Sheffield S11 9BD
Received 19 Oct 198957 Snaithing Park Road Sheffield S10 3LJ
Received 14 Jan 1991Sale Hill Sheffield
Received 29 Apr 1991Whiteley Woods Whiteley Wood Road Sheffield S11 7FF
Received 24 Jun 199133 Whitworth Road Sheffield S10 3HD
Received 24 Jun 1991Whiteley Woods Whiteley Wood Road Sheffield S11 7FF
Received 3 Jul 1991The Green Vicarage Lane Dore Sheffield S17 3GX
Received 25 Sept 1991Manchester Road Sheffield
Received 6 Nov 199155 Glencoe Road Sheffield S2 2SQ
Received 11 Jun 19922 Kirk Edge Road Worrall Sheffield S35 0PE
Received 8 Mar 199384 Norfolk Road Sheffield S2 2SZ
Received 24 Mar 1993Sherwoods Commercial Vehicles Highfield Garage 2 Highfield Lane Sheffield S13 9DB
Received 7 Jun 1993116 Greenhow Street Sheffield S6 3TP
Received 29 Oct 1993367 Abbeydale Road South Totley Rise Sheffield S17 3LG
Received 22 Aug 1994Records 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Sheffield 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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