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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6,075 approved · 777 refused · 319 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Coppenhall Mews Coppenhall Stafford South Staffordshire ST18 9BA
Received 7 Mar 20162 Heath Barns Old Stafford Road Slade Heath Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV10 7PZ
Received 8 Mar 20162 Heath Barns Old Stafford Road Slade Heath Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV10 7PZ
Received 7 Mar 2016Land Off Gravelly Way Four Ashes South Staffordshire
Received 9 Mar 2016The Village Car Sales Penkridge Limited Cheadle House Stone Cross Penkridge Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 5AS
Received 9 Mar 20163 Sterrymere Gardens Kinver Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 6ET
Received 7 Mar 2016Checkhill Farm Mill Lane Enville Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 5AT
Received 7 Mar 201680 High Street Kinver Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 6ES
Received 7 Mar 2016Four Oaks Norton Road Iverley Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY8 2RX
Received 3 Mar 2016Woden Close Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 8BQ
Received 9 Mar 2016Hollow Mill Bungalow Hinksford Lane Hinksford Kingswinford South Staffordshire DY6 0BH
Received 10 Mar 201610 St Johns Close Swindon Dudley South Staffordshire DY3 4PQ
Received 7 Mar 2016Providence Farm Long Lane Newtown Walsall South Staffordshire WS6 6AU
Received 8 Mar 2016Alpha Health Care Limited The Lakes Nursing Home Stafford Road Newtown Walsall South Staffordshire WS6 6BA
Received 11 Mar 20163 Forest Lane Halfpenny Green Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 5EB
Received 11 Mar 201622 Bilbrook Road Bilbrook Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV8 1EY
Received 11 Mar 20161 Grange Avenue Penkridge Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 5NW
Received 12 Mar 20163 Dimmingsdale Road Lower Penn Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV4 4XF
Received 12 Mar 2016Snelgrove The Cliff Kinver Stourbridge South Staffordshire DY7 6HP
Received 8 Mar 2016Keepers Cottage Wood Lane Stretton Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 9LF
Received 9 Mar 2016Land Opposite Littleton Green Community School Cocksparrow Lane Huntington South Staffordshire
Received 8 Mar 2016Brookhouse Farm Cottage Acton Hill Road Acton Trussell Stafford South Staffordshire ST17 0RY
Received 14 Mar 2016Brookhouse Farm Cottage Acton Hill Road Acton Trussell Stafford South Staffordshire ST17 0RY
Received 4 Mar 20161 Swan Lane Dunston Stafford South Staffordshire ST18 9AE
Received 15 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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