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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 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331 approved · 39 refused · 6 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Site Of Jamia Al Hudaa Independent College Bawtry Road Sheffield S9 1WD
Received 3 Feb 2026Bracken Moor Sports Club Bracken Moor Lane Sheffield S36 2AN
Received 3 Feb 2026Bank Park Car Park Sylvester Street Sheffield S1 4RN
Received 5 Feb 2026Oughtibridge War Memorial Sports Ground Waterside Gardens Sheffield S35 0JS
Received 10 Feb 2026Flat Over 1 The Green Darnall Sheffield S9 5JN
Received 11 Feb 20261 - 3 King Street City Centre Sheffield S3 8LF
Received 12 Feb 202612 Tapton Crescent Road And Site Of Former 10 Tapton Crescent Road Sheffield S10 5DA
Received 13 Feb 2026My Ciggy 851 Chesterfield Road Sheffield S8 0SQ
Received 17 Feb 202649 Folds Crescent Sheffield S8 0EP
Received 19 Feb 2026Loxley Works Storrs Bridge Lane Sheffield S6 6SX
Received 19 Feb 2026Site Of Castle Market Exchange Street Sheffield S2 5TR
Received 19 Feb 2026Land To The Rear Of 117A Manchester Road Crosspool Sheffield S10 5DN
Received 23 Feb 202641 Dorset Street Sheffield S10 2FW
Received 23 Feb 202621 Victoria Road Broomhall Sheffield S10 2DJ
Received 24 Feb 2026Land At Rear Of Waterfall Close And Summerhouse Drive Norton Lane Sheffield S8 8BL
Received 5 Mar 2026Land And Buildings At Smithfield Sheffield S3 7AR
Received 9 Mar 2026380 Ecclesall Road South Sheffield S11 9PY
Received 9 Mar 202612 Bankwood Road Sheffield S14 1LT
Received 10 Mar 2026Highcliffe Social Club 24 Highcliffe Drive Greystones Sheffield S11 7LU
Received 12 Mar 2026Foxhill Industrial Estate Baxter Road Sheffield S6 1JF
Received 13 Mar 2026508 Fulwood Road Sheffield S10 3QD
Received 13 Mar 2026Turner's 298 Abbeydale Road Sheffield S7 1FL
Received 20 Mar 202635 Victor Street Sheffield S6 2SA
Received 26 Mar 2026Yorkshire Artspace Persistence Works 21 Brown Street Sheffield S1 2BS
Received 30 Mar 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 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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