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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.
9,038 approved · 1,362 refused · 538 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Street Record Wattles Lane Acton Trussell
Received 30 Oct 2024St Marks Church Station Road Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6LJ
Received 30 Oct 2024The Beeches Hampton Grove Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6LP
Received 5 Nov 2024Ridgehill Wood Lodge Lane Kingswinford West Midlands
Received 31 Oct 20243 Tuters Hill Cottages Patshull Road Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7DU
Received 5 Nov 2024Land On The West Side Of Yew Tree Lane Tettenhall West Midlands
Received 31 Oct 2024Kinver Mount Comber Grove Kinver
Received 5 Nov 202431 Kiddemore Green Road Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9BQ
Received 6 Nov 2024Unit 5 Bradford Estate Office Weston Bank Watling Street Weston Under Lizard SHIFNAL TF11 8JU
Received 6 Nov 2024Bungalow Farm Ivy House Lane Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9LW
Received 7 Nov 20247 Admiral Rodney Gardens Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9FA
Received 7 Nov 20242 Williams Paddock Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5FW
Received 7 Nov 20241 Madeira Avenue Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2DS
Received 5 Nov 202431 Kiddemore Green Road Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9BQ
Received 8 Nov 2024Unit 4 Vernon Park Cannock Road Featherstone WV10 7HP
Received 9 Nov 2024Land North East Of Essington Primary School Hobnock Road Essington South Staffordshire
Received 11 Nov 2024Winchester House Whitehouse Lane Codsall Wood WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1QS
Received 12 Nov 2024Larkhill Chase View Lane Coppenhall STAFFORD ST18 9BL
Received 12 Nov 202418 Histons Drive Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2ET
Received 13 Nov 2024Keepers Coppice Showell Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4TU
Received 13 Nov 2024Severn Trent Water Authority Sewage Treatment Works Brineton Shifnal TF11 8NH
Received 11 Nov 2024West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 13 Nov 2024Wergs Farm House Popes Lane Tettenhall Wolverhampton WOLVERHAMPTON West Midlands WV6 8TX
Received 14 Nov 2024Sandiacre Farm Shop And Nurseries Himley Lane Himley DUDLEY DY3 4LN
Received 15 Nov 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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