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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.
6,353 approved · 802 refused · 326 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 May 2015 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
34 Elliotts Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1PG
Received 12 Feb 2020Greyfields Court Beacon Lane Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 5NQ
Received 13 Feb 2020Land On The East Side Of Hyde Lane Kinver DY7 6AE
Received 13 Feb 202022 Pendeford Mill Lane Bilbrook WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1JG
Received 13 Feb 2020Pony Paddock The Compa Kinver
Received 13 Feb 2020Blackhills Quarry Bridgnorth Road Swindon DUDLEY DY3 4PU
Received 14 Feb 2020Belt View Farm Cannock Road Bednall STAFFORD ST17 0SH
Received 30 Jan 2020The Boat Inn Cannock Road Penkridge ST19 5DT
Received 14 Feb 2020The Boat Inn Cannock Road Penkridge ST19 5DT
Received 14 Feb 20204 Bag Pool Way Gospel End DUDLEY DY3 4BL
Received 15 Feb 202066 Walsall Road Churchbridge CANNOCK WS11 8JU
Received 3 Feb 2020Oak Farm Church Lane Seisdon WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 7JD
Received 5 Feb 2020Trescott Grange Farm Furnace Grange Road Trescott WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4XJ
Received 17 Feb 2020Brookfield Farm Penstone Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4XD
Received 17 Feb 202086 Oaken Park Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2BW
Received 4 Feb 2020Kings Lodge Bridgnorth Road Stourton STOURBRIDGE DY7 5BJ
Received 3 Feb 2020Land Adjacent South Bungalow And Topeka Holly Lane Cheslyn Hay
Received 10 Feb 2020Land At Beggars Bush Lane Wombourne
Received 17 Feb 20201 The Old Vicarage Old Vicarage Lane Dunston STAFFORD ST18 9AD
Received 11 Feb 2020Stadacona Stafford Road Coven WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7BN
Received 18 Feb 2020Keepers Cottage Whittington Hall Lane Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6PJ
Received 18 Feb 202032 Lowland Road Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4ND
Received 18 Feb 20209 Clive Road Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7BU
Received 18 Feb 202088 Rookery Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0JG
Received 19 Feb 2020Records 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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