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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.
7,661 approved · 983 refused · 383 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
3 Coneybere Gardens Brewood Staffordshire ST19 9EJ
Received 13 Dec 2022Hobble End Bungalow Hobble End Lane Landywood Staffordshire WS6 6AS
Received 14 Dec 2022Trysull House Seisdon Road Trysull Staffordshire WV5 7JF
Received 14 Dec 2022Perton Court Cottage Pattingham Road Perton Staffordshire WV6 7HD
Received 14 Dec 202273 Bratch Lane Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 8DJ
Received 15 Dec 20223 Bridgewater Drive Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 8EN
Received 14 Dec 2022The Cottage Chamberlains Lane Penn Common Staffordshire WV4 5HS
Received 16 Dec 2022Coven Coppice Lawn Lane Coven Staffordshire WV9 5BA
Received 16 Dec 2022Micklewood Stud Farm Micklewood Lane Penkridge Staffordshire ST19 5SD
Received 16 Dec 2022Rye Hill Coven Road Brewood Staffordshire ST19 9DF
Received 16 Dec 2022The Stables Bell Hurst Lane Wheaton Aston
Received 16 Dec 2022Kingsford House Kingsford Lane Kinver Staffordshire DY11 5SB
Received 16 Dec 2022Church View Barn Watery Bank Ivetsey Bank Staffordshire ST19 9ER
Received 16 Dec 202224 Penn Road Gospel End Staffordshire DY3 4AQ
Received 17 Dec 202219 The Heathlands Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 8HF
Received 19 Dec 202230 Leacroft Lane Churchbridge Staffordshire WS11 8JX
Received 19 Dec 2022Whittington Inn Kidderminster Road Whittington Staffordshire DY7 6NY
Received 19 Dec 2022Whittington Inn Kidderminster Road Whittington Staffordshire DY7 6NY
Received 19 Dec 2022(The Willows) Land West Of Dark Lane Cross Green
Received 20 Dec 2022Lapley Lodge Park Lane Lapley Staffordshire ST19 9JT
Received 13 Dec 202213 Tower View Road Great Wyrley Staffordshire WS6 6HE
Received 19 Dec 2022High Acres Ebstree Road Seisdon Staffordshire WV5 7ES
Received 20 Dec 2022Holland House Lawnswood Road Lawnswood Staffordshire DY7 5AW
Received 19 Dec 20221 Hatherton Road Penkridge Staffordshire ST19 5BE
Received 20 Dec 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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