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331 approved · 39 refused · 6 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oak Farm Tofts Lane Sheffield S6 5SL
Received 6 Jul 202623 Merlin Way Sheffield S5 6SS
Received 6 Jul 2026Land Between Hollin Busk Road And Broomfield Grove And Broomfield Lane Sheffield S36 2AQ
Received 6 Jul 2026McCarthys Storage World 100 Savile Street Sheffield S4 7UD
Received 6 Jul 2026Sheffield Institute For Translational Neuroscience 385A Glossop Road Sheffield S10 2HQ
Received 7 Jul 202618 Oakholme Road Sheffield S10 3DF
Received 7 Jul 202634 Marlborough Road Sheffield S10 1DB
Received 7 Jul 202611 Kerwin Close Sheffield S17 3DF
Received 7 Jul 202632 Swale Gardens Sheffield S9 4LD
Received 7 Jul 202623 Owlthorpe Avenue Sheffield S20 5JS
Received 7 Jul 20262 - 8 Crookes Road Sheffield S10 5BB
Received 7 Jul 202634 Marlborough Road Sheffield S10 1DB
Received 7 Jul 2026Bay Trees 16 Cavendish Avenue Dore Sheffield S17 3NJ
Received 8 Jul 2026Thorncliffe Cricket And Social Club Lound Side Sheffield S35 2US
Received 8 Jul 202673 Edale Road Sheffield S11 7PJ
Received 7 Jul 202675 Edale Road Sheffield S11 7PJ
Received 7 Jul 2026Toll Bar Cottage 189 Burngreave Road Sheffield S3 9DL
Received 8 Jul 2026Toll Bar Cottage 189 Burngreave Road Sheffield S3 9DL
Received 8 Jul 2026Porterbrook Deli 354 Sharrow Vale Road Sheffield S11 8ZP
Received 8 Jul 202614 Maplebeck Drive Sheffield S9 1WH
Received 8 Jul 202647 Oak Hill Road Sheffield S7 1SJ
Received 8 Jul 20261 Regent Court Bradfield Road Sheffield S6 2BT
Received 8 Jul 2026Harrisons Yard Blackburn Road Sheffield S61 2DW
Received 8 Jul 2026Thessco Ltd Royds Mill Windsor Street Sheffield S4 7WB
Received 8 Jul 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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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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