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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.
7,290 approved · 898 refused · 365 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jun 2012 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hungerford Seisdon Road Trysull Staffordshire WV5 7JF
Received 3 May 2022Hilton Cross Business Park Cannock Road Featherstone Staffordshire
Received 4 May 202210 Castle Street Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6EL
Received 4 May 2022Cookley Lane Stables Cookley Lane Kinver Staffordshire
Received 4 May 202210 Oakfield Road Bilbrook Staffordshire WV8 1LA
Received 26 Apr 202223 Chantry Road New Wood Staffordshire DY7 6SA
Received 4 May 202222 Forest Drive Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6DX
Received 4 May 202215A High Street Swindon Staffordshire DY3 4NP
Received 25 Apr 2022367 Walsall Road Great Wyrley Staffordshire WS6 6DP
Received 4 May 2022SAD Site 119 Saredon Road Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire
Received 4 May 2022SAD Site 119 Saredon Road Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire
Received 4 May 2022Habberley Radford Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV3 8JT
Received 4 May 20224 Rectory Drive Weston Under Lizard Staffordshire TF11 8QQ
Received 5 May 2022The Birches Hazel Lane Great Wyrley Staffordshire WS6 6AA
Received 5 May 2022Boulton Farm Wood Lane Great Saredon WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7LR
Received 26 Apr 202248 Meddins Lane Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6BY
Received 1 May 20227 Larch Close Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6JN
Received 30 Apr 202283 Richmond Drive Perton Staffordshire WV6 7RP
Received 3 May 2022Land Adjacent The Manor House Oaken Lane Oaken Staffordshire
Received 26 Apr 2022Coppice House Cannock Road Bednall Staffordshire ST19 5RP
Received 3 May 202220 Bridgnorth Road Himley Staffordshire DY3 4LJ
Received 6 May 20223 Mount Pleasant Avenue Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 8BN
Received 6 May 2022W Brindley (Garages) Ltd Cat And Kittens Lane Slade Heath Staffordshire WV10 7NY
Received 3 May 202224 Redwing Drive Huntington Staffordshire WS12 4TH
Received 6 May 2022Records 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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