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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.
8,175 approved · 1,107 refused · 443 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Dec 2008 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Sandy Lane Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9ET
Received 5 Jul 202318 Compton Road Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6DN
Received 6 Jul 2023Stamford Cottage Stamford Courtyard Enville STOURBRIDGE DY7 5EX
Received 6 Jul 202369 Chapel Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2EJ
Received 6 Jul 202344 Chillington Drive Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1AW
Received 6 Jul 2023West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 8 Jun 2023A J Sellman Ltd Sellmans Clay Street Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5AF
Received 6 Jul 2023Four Oaks Pool House Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 8AZ
Received 6 Jul 2023Land Adjacent 26 Dark Lane Kinver
Received 6 Jul 2023Cherry Tree Cottage Whittington Hall Lane Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6PW
Received 7 Jul 202325 Church View Gardens Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6EE
Received 3 Jul 2023Bridleways Farm Sandy Lane Bishops Wood STAFFORD ST19 9AF
Received 7 Jul 202342 Rennison Drive Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9HW
Received 7 Jul 202317 Hut Hill Lane Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6PD
Received 7 Jul 2023Beaufort House Hunters Ride Lawnswood STOURBRIDGE DY7 5QN
Received 9 Jul 2023Woodland Cottage Levedale Road Longridge STAFFORD ST18 9AL
Received 10 Jul 2023Bungalow Farm Ivy House Lane Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9LW
Received 10 Jul 2023Cavans Keep Stafford Road Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4NA
Received 10 Jul 2023Longnor House 11A Westbeech Road Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7AQ
Received 5 Jul 202374 Hawthorne Road Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2DD
Received 7 Jul 2023St Johns Church Hall Hill Street Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2BW
Received 4 Jul 2023Tudor House Mill Lane Acton Trussell STAFFORD ST17 0RD
Received 11 Jul 2023Wergs Farm House Popes Lane Tettenhall Wolverhampton WOLVERHAMPTON West Midlands WV6 8TX
Received 11 Jul 2023Windy Nook Holyhead Road Oaken WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2HX
Received 12 Jul 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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