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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.
9,296 approved · 1,415 refused · 558 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
39 High Street Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6HF
Received 26 Mar 202519 Hawthorne Road Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2DD
Received 26 Mar 2025Hockerhill Farm Kiddemore Green Road Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9BQ
Received 26 Mar 2025Land Off Hartwell Lane Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6NH
Received 26 Mar 202584 Orton Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4XB
Received 27 Mar 20257 Cannock Road Featherstone WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7AA
Received 27 Mar 2025Wheatstone Park Wood Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1QR
Received 27 Mar 2025Brindley Heath Junior School Enville Road Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6AA
Received 19 Mar 2025Land To The Rear Of Stephenson Drive Perton
Received 20 Mar 20255 The Nook Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7LD
Received 25 Mar 2025Cosy Nook Coven Road Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9BY
Received 27 Mar 20252 Copper Beech Drive Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0LH
Received 21 Mar 2025Land On The East Side Of Wolgarston Way And The North Side Of Saxon Road Penkridge ST19 5DQ
Received 27 Mar 202520 Hayes View Drive Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7EX
Received 28 Mar 202573 Hilton Lane Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6DT
Received 28 Mar 2025Ridgehill Wood Lodge Lane Kingswinford West Midlands
Received 28 Mar 2025Loneacre 128 Feiashill Road Trysull WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 7HT
Received 14 Mar 2025Active4Less Unit E Smestow Bridge Industrial Estate Bridgnorth Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 8AY
Received 24 Mar 20258 Littlewood Lane Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7EJ
Received 26 Mar 2025Land Off Hawthorne Drive Wheaton Aston
Received 26 Mar 2025Wombourne Enterprise Park Bridgnorth Road Wombourne WV5 0AL
Received 28 Mar 20254 Brereton Close Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1FE
Received 28 Mar 2025Land South Of Vicarage Road Calf Heath South Staffordshire
Received 28 Mar 2025Heath House Queens Road Calf Heath WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7DS
Received 28 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.
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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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