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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.
7,741 approved · 997 refused · 385 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Nov 2011 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Forest Drive Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6DX
Received 21 Jan 2023Hilton Cross Business Park Cannock Road Featherstone Staffordshire
Received 23 Jan 202311 Compton Road Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6DL
Received 23 Jan 20234 Wood Farm Barns Gospel End Road Gospel End Staffordshire DY3 4HA
Received 24 Jan 2023West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 25 Jan 2023The Croft Paradise Lane Slade Heath Staffordshire WV10 7NZ
Received 25 Jan 202322A Walsall Road Churchbridge Staffordshire WS11 8JU
Received 25 Jan 2023Wrottesley Home Farm Holyhead Road Codsall Staffordshire WV8 2HT
Received 25 Jan 2023Coppice Corner Bridgnorth Road Stourton Staffordshire DY7 6SE
Received 25 Jan 2023Lower Drayton Farm Lower Drayton Lane Penkridge Staffordshire ST19 5RE
Received 25 Jan 2023Leper House Whitehouse Lane Codsall Wood Staffordshire WV8 1QG
Received 25 Jan 2023Woodview Vicarage Road Calf Heath Staffordshire WV10 7DJ
Received 25 Jan 2023The Grange Top Road Acton Trussell Staffordshire ST17 0RQ
Received 25 Jan 2023New Acre Stables Wolverhampton Road Penkridge Staffordshire
Received 26 Jan 202314 Birches Park Road Codsall Staffordshire WV8 2DT
Received 26 Jan 2023Severn Trent Sewage Treatment Works Windsor Holloway Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6NS
Received 26 Jan 2023Land Adjacent To Park House Wood Road Codsall Wood Staffordshire WV8 1QR
Received 10 Jan 20237 Enville Road Kinver Staffordshire DY7 6AB
Received 27 Jan 2023Ranchette Cherry Lane Himley Staffordshire DY3 4LE
Received 27 Jan 2023Highcroft Fox Road Seisdon Staffordshire WV5 7HD
Received 29 Jan 2023Flinders 29 Olde Hall Lane Great Wyrley Staffordshire WS6 6LL
Received 29 Jan 2023Netley House Gravel Hill Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 9HA
Received 30 Jan 202386 Springhill Lane Lower Penn Staffordshire WV4 4TJ
Received 30 Jan 202310 Griffiths Drive Wombourne Staffordshire WV5 0JW
Received 25 Jan 2023Records 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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