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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.
9,457 approved · 1,447 refused · 573 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Church Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1EA
Received 19 May 2025Land At Grange Farm School Lane Coven
Received 13 May 2025Keepers Coppice Showell Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4TU
Received 20 May 2025Land At Cherry Lane Himley DUDLEY
Received 21 May 2025Fourways School Road Trysull WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 7HR
Received 22 May 2025Sunnyridge Tinkers Lane Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9DD
Received 22 May 2025Park House Park Lane Lapley STAFFORD ST19 9JT
Received 16 May 2025Mount Cottage Redcliffe Drive Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0JE
Received 16 May 2025Jaguar Land Rover Wolverhampton Unit B Innovation Drive Pendeford WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5GA
Received 27 May 2025Cedar House Little Oaks Drive Lawnswood STOURBRIDGE DY7 5QQ
Received 28 May 202530 Billars Close Bilbrook WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1FQ
Received 30 May 2025Street Record Kiddemore Green Road Brewood
Received 20 May 2025Kelsall Builders Merchants Wood Lane Great Saredon WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7LR
Received 4 Jun 202512A Wayside Acres Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2BS
Received 4 Jun 2025Sans Souci Ashwood Marina Ashwood Lower Lane Ashwood KINGSWINFORD DY6 0AQ
Received 4 Jun 2025Greenacres Light Ash Lane Coven WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5AE
Received 12 Jun 2025Severn Trent Water Limited Copley Pumping Station Copley Lane Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7DZ
Received 13 Jun 2025Select Bus Services Lower Drayton Farm Lower Drayton Lane Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5RE
Received 16 Jun 2025Lyne Hill Nurseries Lyne Hill Lane Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5NT
Received 16 Jun 202511 Beech Close Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6LW
Received 17 Jun 2025The New Rectory School Lane Blymhill SHIFNAL TF11 8LH
Received 17 Jun 202523 Stafford Street Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9DX
Received 17 Jun 2025Jaguar Land Rover Wolverhampton Unit B Innovation Drive Pendeford WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5GA
Received 17 Jun 2025Bridleways Farm Sandy Lane Bishops Wood STAFFORD ST19 9AF
Received 17 Jun 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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