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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.
7,507 approved · 942 refused · 373 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Jan 2012 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Enville Brewery Hollies Lane Enville Staffordshire DY7 5LD
Received 20 Oct 202261 Hawksmoor Drive Perton Staffordshire WV6 7TL
Received 20 Oct 202251 Rennison Drive Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 9HW
Received 21 Oct 2022Ellesmere Cottage Watling Street Four Crosses Staffordshire WS11 1SD
Received 19 Oct 202235 Stafford Street Brewood Staffordshire ST19 9DX
Received 21 Oct 2022Right Of Way Connecting Dippons Lane And Penda Grove Perton Staffordshire
Received 21 Oct 2022Quarry Cottages Bridgnorth Road Swindon Staffordshire DY3 4PU
Received 26 Oct 202220 Penn Road Gospel End Staffordshire DY3 4AQ
Received 21 Oct 2022Seisdon Stores Crockington Lane Seisdon Staffordshire WV5 7EJ
Received 24 Oct 2022Crump Hillocks Farm Bradbury Lane Enville Staffordshire DY7 5JG
Received 26 Oct 2022Land At Cherry Lane Himley Staffordshire
Received 26 Oct 2022Pendeford Hall Farm Pendeford Hall Lane Coven Staffordshire WV9 5BD
Received 26 Oct 2022The Caravan Ellesmere Cottage Watling Street WS11 1SD
Received 26 Oct 202266 Stafford Road Huntington Staffordshire WS12 4PE
Received 27 Oct 2022The Roe Deer Lawnswood Road Lawnswood Staffordshire DY7 5QJ
Received 27 Oct 202257 Kiddemore Green Road Brewood Staffordshire ST19 9BQ
Received 28 Oct 20223 Bridgewater Drive Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 8EN
Received 28 Oct 20222 Shawbury Grove Perton Staffordshire WV6 7LR
Received 27 Oct 2022Garage Site Alpha Way Great Wyrley Staffordshire
Received 31 Oct 2022Car Park High Street Wombourne Staffordshire
Received 31 Oct 2022The Mill House Mill Lane Codsall Staffordshire WV8 1EG
Received 31 Oct 2022The Lakes Nursing Home Stafford Road Newtown Staffordshire WS6 6BA
Received 31 Oct 2022Dutch Barn House Six Ashes Road Bobbington Staffordshire DY7 5BY
Received 28 Oct 2022Horse Chestnut Cottage Six Ashes Road Bobbington Staffordshire DY7 5BY
Received 28 Oct 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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