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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 South Staffordshire Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,075 approved · 777 refused · 319 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Oct 2015 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
40 Dunsley Road Kinver Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 6LX
Received 26 Jan 201654 Post Office Road Seisdon Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV5 7HA
Received 9 Feb 20166 Ward Road Gospel End Staffordshire DY3 4BD
Received 9 Feb 2016Land Off Gravelly Way Four Ashes South Staffordshire
Received 4 Feb 201635 Church View Gardens Kinver South Staffordshire DY7 6EE
Received 5 Feb 201641 Strathmore Crescent Wombourne Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV5 9AR
Received 9 Feb 2016Preston Cottage Levedale Road Penkridge Staffordshire ST19 5AT
Received 10 Feb 20162 Grosvenor Close Penkridge Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 5BS
Received 9 Feb 2016Trescott Grange Farm Furnace Grange Road Trescott Staffordshire WV4 4XJ
Received 11 Feb 2016Holloway Nurseries Windsor Holloway Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6NS
Received 11 Feb 201688 Bridgnorth Road Wombourne Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV5 0AQ
Received 10 Feb 2016Saredon Hall Farm Saredon Hall Road Great Saredon Staffordshire WV10 7FB
Received 11 Feb 2016Saredon Hall Farm Saredon Hall Road Great Saredon Staffordshire WV10 7FB
Received 11 Feb 2016Parkside Manor Parkside Lane Hatherton Cannock South Staffordshire WS11 1RL
Received 9 Feb 2016South Staffordshire College Rodbaston Campus Farm Drive Rodbaston Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 5PH
Received 12 Feb 2016Briar Croft School Lane Dunston Stafford South Staffordshire ST18 9AG
Received 13 Feb 2016Pattingham Park High Street Pattingham South Staffordshire
Received 15 Feb 2016Devon Cottage Tom Lane Bobbington Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 5EN
Received 15 Feb 2016Husphins Farm Barns Husphins Lane Codsall Wood Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV8 1RN
Received 16 Feb 2016Grafton House Penn Common WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 5JZ
Received 16 Feb 20162 Lawn Lane Coven Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV9 5AX
Received 16 Feb 20164 Cresswell Lane Brewood Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 9BE
Received 12 Feb 201616 Sandy Lane Brewood Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 9ET
Received 16 Feb 2016Oakley Farm Kiddemore Green Road Brewood Staffordshire ST19 9BH
Received 17 Feb 2016Records 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 South Staffordshire 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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