Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
9,276 approved · 1,410 refused · 555 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
26 Church Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1ED
Received 20 Mar 2025East Cottage Bridgnorth Road Enville STOURBRIDGE DY7 5HA
Received 7 Mar 2025Lane Green Farm Lane Green Road Bilbrook WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1LP
Received 13 Mar 2025The Iron House Compton Road Kinver Edge STOURBRIDGE DY7 5NN
Received 13 Mar 2025Southbound Services Hilton Lane Hilton
Received 21 Mar 2025288 Cannock Road Westcroft WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 8QG
Received 21 Mar 20251A Chapel Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2EH
Received 21 Mar 2025Coven Dental Surgery 137 Wolverhampton Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1PF
Received 21 Mar 2025Hanily House Crab Lane Bobbington STOURBRIDGE DY7 5DZ
Received 21 Mar 2025Trees Opposite 1 Covers Lane On Boundary Lane Prestwood
Received 21 Mar 202551 Oaken Park Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2BW
Received 4 Mar 2025284 Cannock Road Westcroft WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 8QG
Received 24 Mar 202558 Windsor Crescent Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6AJ
Received 19 Mar 202527 The Stewponey Stourton STOURBRIDGE DY7 6RL
Received 21 Mar 202557 Station Street Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7ED
Received 24 Mar 2025Dunston House Wolverhampton Road Dunston
Received 24 Mar 2025St Nicholas Church Church Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1EH
Received 25 Mar 2025Upper Wheats Farm The Lane Coppenhall STAFFORD ST18 9BS
Received 25 Mar 2025A J Sellman Ltd Sellmans Clay Street Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5AF
Received 25 Mar 2025M6 Diesel Limited Saredon Filling Station Cannock Road Shareshill WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7LZ
Received 25 Mar 2025Glenfields Stourbridge Road Lloyd Hill WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 5NF
Received 25 Mar 20253 Old Hall Cottages Watling Street Ivetsey Bank STAFFORD ST19 9QT
Received 26 Mar 20252 Norton Road Iverley STOURBRIDGE DY8 2RX
Received 26 Mar 2025Iverley Hay Farm Iverley Lane Iverley STOURBRIDGE DY8 2RZ
Received 26 Mar 2025Records 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage