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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6,075 approved · 777 refused · 319 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
6 South View Close Codsall Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV8 2JD
Received 12 Apr 201921 Hinksford Lane Swindon Dudley South Staffordshire DY3 4NU
Received 12 Apr 2019Copperbank Oaken Lane Oaken WV8 2BE
Received 12 Apr 2019Pillaton Hall Farm Cannock Road Pillaton Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 5RZ
Received 12 Apr 2019Dunston Business Village Stafford Road Penkridge
Received 12 Apr 2019Dunston Business Village Stafford Road Penkridge
Received 12 Apr 2019Lawnswood Farm Lawnswood Road Lawnswood STOURBRIDGE South Staffordshire DY7 5QL
Received 13 Apr 201945 Station Road Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6LH
Received 13 Apr 2019140 Common Road Wombourne Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV5 0LT
Received 15 Apr 2019Brindley Operations Centre Cat And Kittens Lane Slade Heath Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV10 7NY
Received 15 Apr 201917 Gorsty Hayes Codsall Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV8 1PY
Received 8 Apr 2019Sedgley Court Brick Kiln Way Gospel End Staffordshire DY3 4BA
Received 16 Apr 2019Brockton Grange Farmhouse Great Chatwell Newport NEWPORT TF11 8NN
Received 16 Apr 2019Brockton Grange Farmhouse Great Chatwell Newport NEWPORT TF11 8NN
Received 16 Apr 2019Chattel Lodge Shaw Hall Lane Coven Heath Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV10 7HE
Received 16 Apr 2019The Hinksford Arms Swindon Road Hinksford Kingswinford South Staffordshire DY6 0BA
Received 16 Apr 201993 Planks Lane Wombourne Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV5 8DX
Received 10 Apr 2019The Stables Palmers Cross Farm Codsall Road Codsall Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV6 9QG
Received 11 Apr 2019Gorran Haven Radford Lane Castlecroft Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV3 8JT
Received 15 Apr 2019The Spread Eagle Watling Street Gailey Stafford South Staffordshire ST19 5PN
Received 17 Apr 2019The Meadows Middle Lane Oaken Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV8 2BE
Received 17 Apr 201914 Foxlands Drive Penn Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV4 5NA
Received 17 Apr 20191 Broomhall Cottages Horsebrook Farm Lane Brewood ST19 9LD
Received 18 Apr 20196 Buttermere Court Perton Wolverhampton South Staffordshire WV6 7PP
Received 18 Apr 2019Records 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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