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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.
8,849 approved · 1,313 refused · 514 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jul 2007 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oaken Lodge Oaken Lanes Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2AH
Received 15 Apr 2024Upper Brockhurst Farm Brockhurst Road Blymhill SHIFNAL TF11 8NE
Received 15 Apr 20245 The Copelands Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6EZ
Received 16 Apr 2024Copper Beech St Michaels Road Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5AH
Received 16 Apr 2024Bednall Hill Farm Vicarage Lane Bednall ST17 0SA
Received 16 Apr 2024Upper Warstone Farm Warstone Road Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2AR
Received 16 Apr 2024Rockstar Equine Cocksparrow Lane Huntington
Received 16 Apr 2024Avalon 42 Moor Lane Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7AR
Received 17 Apr 2024Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service Kinver Fire Station Fairfield Drive Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6EW
Received 17 Apr 2024Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service Penkridge Fire Station Boscomoor Lane Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5NU
Received 17 Apr 2024Land North Of Wobaston Road Pendeford
Received 17 Apr 20244 Walk Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9HH
Received 17 Apr 2024Bratch Bottom Lock 23 Bratch Lane Wombourne
Received 17 Apr 20245 Roseville Gardens Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1AZ
Received 17 Apr 2024Trewrong Coven Road Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9DF
Received 18 Apr 2024Robins Nest Farm Dirty Foot Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4UQ
Received 10 Apr 2024Land Adjacent To Meadow View Cottage Six Ashes Road Bobbington STOURBRIDGE DY7 5DT
Received 10 Apr 202431 Meadow Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9BT
Received 12 Apr 2024West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 18 Apr 2024Land At White Hill Kinver Staffordshire
Received 18 Apr 2024Land South Of White Hill Kinver
Received 18 Apr 20243 The Meadows Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9HE
Received 18 Apr 2024Abbey Farms Cannock Road Penkridge
Received 19 Apr 2024Post House Bridgnorth Road Stourton STOURBRIDGE DY7 5BQ
Received 19 Apr 2024Records 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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