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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6,075 approved · 777 refused · 319 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Jenks Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0BJ
Received 14 Aug 2019Brookside Farm Codsall Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 9QG
Received 15 Aug 201926 Bridgnorth Road Stourton STOURBRIDGE DY7 6RW
Received 22 Aug 20193 Heather Drive Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6DR
Received 21 Aug 20196 Lansdowne Avenue Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2EN
Received 19 Aug 20191 Edge Hill Drive Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7SN
Received 24 Aug 2019Springhill Cottage Springhill House Springhill Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4TJ
Received 24 Aug 201954 Hyde Lane Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6AF
Received 28 Aug 201960 Bridgnorth Road Stourton STOURBRIDGE DY7 6RT
Received 28 Aug 201910 Pendeford Mill Lane Bilbrook WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1JB
Received 28 Aug 201916 Brantley Crescent Bobbington STOURBRIDGE DY7 5DB
Received 28 Aug 2019Dawtry Farm Watling Street Four Crosses
Received 29 Aug 2019Lapley Green Bickford Road Bickford
Received 21 Aug 201976 Weston Drive Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7NQ
Received 19 Aug 2019Acorn Farm Building Acton Hill Road Acton Trussell STAFFORD ST17 0RY
Received 20 Aug 201916 Rydal Drive Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7PN
Received 27 Aug 2019Littleton Green Community School Colliers Way Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4UD
Received 30 Aug 2019Land At Beggars Bush Lane Wombourne
Received 30 Aug 2019Land At Beggars Bush Lane Wombourne
Received 30 Aug 201966 Meddins Lane Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6BY
Received 30 Aug 2019Midland Cryogenics Ltd 1 Aspley Close Four Ashes WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7DE
Received 23 Aug 2019Threeways Hyde Bank Coppenhall STAFFORD ST18 9BW
Received 31 Aug 2019Land Owned By Orton House Showell Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4UX
Received 23 Aug 2019177 Cannock Road Westcroft WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 8QL
Received 3 Sept 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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