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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.
8,948 approved · 1,347 refused · 526 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 2007 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mill View Stables Warstones Hill Road Nurton
Received 23 Sept 2024Whittington Old House Horse Bridge Lane Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6NX
Received 23 Sept 2024The Summer House Long Common Claverley WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 7AX
Received 23 Sept 202423 Old Weston Road Bishops Wood STAFFORD ST19 9AG
Received 23 Sept 20241 Hatherton Road Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5BE
Received 24 Sept 20245 Filance Lane Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5HJ
Received 24 Sept 2024Court House Cottage Patshull Road Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7BG
Received 24 Sept 2024Claverley House Nurton Hill Road Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7HG
Received 24 Sept 2024Court House Cottage Patshull Road Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7BG
Received 24 Sept 202412 Broad Lane Springhill WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2RG
Received 18 Sept 2024Beeches Histons Hill Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1AA
Received 25 Sept 202427 Kings Road Calf Heath WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7DU
Received 18 Sept 2024Gestamp West Midlands 2 Four Ashes Park Four Ashes WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7FH
Received 25 Sept 2024Longnor Mill Farm Wheaton Aston Road Longnor STAFFORD ST19 5QN
Received 25 Sept 202445 Springhill Park Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4TS
Received 26 Sept 2024Hall End Farm Hall End Lane Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7BN
Received 26 Sept 2024Land At White Hill Kinver Staffordshire
Received 26 Sept 20242 Haling Road Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5BZ
Received 26 Sept 2024Croft Cottage School Road Trysull WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 7HR
Received 26 Sept 2024Croft Cottage School Road Trysull WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 7HR
Received 26 Sept 2024Checkhill Farm Great Checkhill Road Gothersley STOURBRIDGE DY7 5AT
Received 27 Sept 2024Briarcroft Bridgnorth Road Shipley WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7EZ
Received 27 Sept 2024Keepers Cottage Hilton Park Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2AY
Received 28 Sept 2024Subani House Old Stafford Road Slade Heath WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7PJ
Received 29 Sept 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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