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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6,075 approved · 777 refused · 319 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent To Otters Reach High Street Kinver Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 6HE
Received 26 Feb 2016South Cottage Mill Lane Little Saredon Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV10 7LJ
Received 26 Feb 2016Shareshill Service Station Cannock Road Shareshill Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV10 7LZ
Received 1 Mar 201645 High Street Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6HF
Received 2 Mar 201656 Kiddemore Green Road Brewood Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 9BQ
Received 2 Mar 2016I54 Site Wobaston Road Pendeford South Staffordshire
Received 2 Mar 2016Keepers Lodge Teddesley Park Penkridge Staffordshire ST19 5RJ
Received 3 Mar 2016Keepers Lodge Teddesley Park Penkridge Staffordshire ST19 5RJ
Received 3 Mar 2016The Arawak Pikes Lane Lower Penn Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV4 4YA
Received 1 Mar 2016Charles House Ivetsey Bank Road Bishops Wood Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 9AE
Received 26 Feb 2016Lot 2 Husphins Lane Codsall Wood South Staffordshire
Received 2 Mar 2016Kinver Scout Training Camp The Compa Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6HR
Received 4 Mar 2016Granary Farm Church Hill The Compa Kinver Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 6HX
Received 1 Mar 2016Bellhurst Farm Bell Hurst Lane Wheaton Aston Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 9QS
Received 2 Mar 201636 St Andrews Drive Perton Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV6 7YJ
Received 5 Mar 2016Riverside House Stanford Close Penkridge Staffordshire ST19 5DD
Received 11 Mar 2016Granary Farm Church Hill The Compa Kinver Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 6HX
Received 5 Mar 201656 Long Lane Newtown Walsall South Staffordshire WS6 6AU
Received 5 Mar 2016The Lawns Radford Lane Castlecroft Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV3 8JT
Received 6 Mar 20163 Charles Avenue Essington Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV11 2TE
Received 7 Mar 2016Old Bush Inn High Street Swindon Dudley South Staffordshire DY3 4NR
Received 3 Mar 201638 Sedgley Road Penn Common Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV4 5LE
Received 3 Mar 2016Stables Mill Riding Centre Warstones Hill Road Nurton Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV6 7HH
Received 8 Mar 2016Red Roofs Radford Lane Castlecroft Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV3 8JT
Received 8 Mar 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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