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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.
6,768 approved · 849 refused · 349 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Feb 2014 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
132 High Hill Essington Staffordshire WV11 2DW
Received 26 Mar 2021Telecommunicaton Mast Walsall Road Great Wyrley Staffordshire
Received 26 Mar 2021Four Oaks Watling Street Hatherton Staffordshire WS11 1SQ
Received 27 Mar 202165 Sytch Lane Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 0LB
Received 27 Mar 202122 Farleigh Road Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7RH
Received 28 Mar 2021Brackendale Astles Rock Walk Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6QA
Received 28 Mar 2021Mile Flat House Mile Flat Greensforge Staffordshire DY6 0AU
Received 29 Mar 2021Kyntor Dunsley Drive Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6NB
Received 23 Mar 20212 Broadacres Close Prestwood STOURBRIDGE DY7 5BW
Received 23 Mar 202118 Millennium Way Bilbrook WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1GA
Received 22 Mar 2021Coppice Farm Cannock Road Bednall Staffordshire
Received 29 Mar 202190 Walsall Road Great Wyrley Staffordshire WS6 6LA
Received 29 Mar 202172 Bridgnorth Road Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 0AQ
Received 29 Mar 2021Gospel Ash Methodist Church Gospel Ash Road Bobbington STOURBRIDGE DY7 5EF
Received 23 Mar 20213 Sutherland Road Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7BW
Received 23 Mar 202127 Foster Street Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6EB
Received 23 Mar 20213 Sytch Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0NF
Received 25 Mar 2021St Johns Church Hall Hill Street Essington Staffordshire WV11 2BW
Received 30 Mar 20213 Salters Meadow Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7FE
Received 30 Mar 202150 Ramillies Crescent Great Wyrley Staffordshire WS6 6JQ
Received 30 Mar 202124 New Horse Road Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7BH
Received 30 Mar 2021Ouaine Lower Penkridge Road Acton Trussell Staffordshire ST17 0RJ
Received 31 Mar 2021Former Sage Aluminium Factory Site Heath Mill Road Wombourne Staffordshire
Received 31 Mar 2021Jacaranda Fentonhouse Lane Wheaton Aston STAFFORD ST19 9NY
Received 21 Mar 2021Records 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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