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331 approved · 39 refused · 6 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
Sandygate Grange Drive Sheffield
Received 22 Aug 199479 Crookes Road Sheffield S10 5BD
Received 3 Jun 1994King Edward VII School Glossop Road Sheffield S10 2PW
Received 28 Jul 1994Botanical Gardens Clarkehouse Road Sheffield S10 2LN
Received 3 Feb 199524 Clarkehouse Road Sheffield S10 2LB
Received 5 May 1995109 Townhead Road Sheffield S17 3AQ
Received 25 Jul 1995Sunnymeade 5 Daniel Hill Sheffield S6 3JF
Received 7 Nov 199598 Riverdale Road Sheffield S10 3FD
Received 15 Mar 1996Farm Road Sheffield
Received 29 Jul 199632 Elmfield Avenue Sheffield S5 7TF
Received 9 Oct 1996General Cemetery, Stalker Lees Road And Cemetery Road Sheffield
Received 2 Dec 1996Rotherham Road Halfway Sheffield
Received 20 Mar 19972 Canterbury Avenue Sheffield S10 3RT
Received 2 Apr 1997Gloucester Crescent Sheffield
Received 9 May 199761 Broad Elms Lane Sheffield S11 9RQ
Received 29 Apr 1997Burntstones Lodge Moorbank Road Sheffield S10 5TQ
Received 24 Jun 1997King Edward VII Hospital Rivelin Valley Road Sheffield
Received 23 Jun 1997Land To The South Of Olympic Saw Mills Alderson Road North Sheffield
Received 5 Nov 1998Street Record Townhead Road Sheffield S17 3GA
Received 11 Jan 1999Land Outside 73 Darnall Road Sheffield
Received 9 Mar 1999Rose Cottage Whirlow Lane Sheffield S11 9QF
Received 6 May 1999Great Gilling 11 Chorley Road Sheffield S10 3RJ
Received 13 Oct 1999Records 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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