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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.
9,442 approved · 1,446 refused · 571 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pendeford Hall Farm Pendeford Hall Lane Coven WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5BD
Received 1 May 2025Lloyd Farm Stourbridge Road Lloyd Hill WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 5NG
Received 8 May 20254 Orchard Grove Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6LL
Received 4 May 2025132 High Hill Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2DW
Received 9 May 2025West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 9 May 2025West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 9 May 2025West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 9 May 202547 Hilton Lane Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6DT
Received 12 May 2025Keepers Coppice Showell Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4TU
Received 12 May 2025Mill Barn 2 Stretton Mill Stretton Mill Road Stretton STAFFORD ST19 9LH
Received 13 May 202588 Meddins Lane Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6DD
Received 13 May 2025Wombourne Enterprise Park Bridgnorth Road Wombourne WV5 0AL
Received 13 May 2025Winander Radford Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV3 8JT
Received 13 May 2025Manor Croft Congreve Lane Congreve STAFFORD ST19 5QG
Received 14 May 2025Edge View Homes Limited Edge View Nursing Home Comber Road Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6HT
Received 14 May 2025Gas House Cottage Watling Street Weston Under Lizard SHIFNAL TF11 8LF
Received 3 May 202551 Pendeford Mill Lane Bilbrook WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1JG
Received 12 May 202545 Springhill Park Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4TS
Received 15 May 202543 Springhill Park Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4TS
Received 15 May 202517 - 19 Littlewood Road Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7EU
Received 16 May 20257 Richards Court Bednall STAFFORD ST17 0SP
Received 16 May 20251 Queens Cottages Bickford Road Lapley STAFFORD ST19 9JX
Received 17 May 20252 White Hill Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6AD
Received 19 May 2025Baroque House Upper Landywood Lane Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7AX
Received 19 May 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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