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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.
9,520 approved · 1,455 refused · 582 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jan 2007 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Leacroft Lodge Limited Ashcroft Hollow Nursing Home 18A Stafford Road Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4PD
Received 29 Dec 202514 Bratch Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9AD
Received 29 Dec 20253 Coven Mill Close Coven WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5HX
Received 29 Dec 20259 Mount Close Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9ER
Received 2 Jan 2026Land At Stafford Road Penkridge
Received 2 Jan 202685 Wombourne Park Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0LX
Received 3 Jan 20269 St Benedicts Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9HP
Received 4 Jan 2026Land At Littywood Farm Toft Lane Coppenhall Staffordshire
Received 5 Jan 2026New Earth Farm Bickford Road Bickford STAFFORD ST19 5QJ
Received 5 Jan 20267 Mount Pleasant Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7AG
Received 5 Jan 2026New Acre Stables Wolverhampton Road Penkridge
Received 5 Jan 20265 Chantry Road New Wood STOURBRIDGE DY7 6SA
Received 19 Dec 2025Wolverhampton Business Airport Crab Lane Bobbington STOURBRIDGE DY7 5DY
Received 6 Jan 2026Prime Oak Whitehouse Lane Swindon DUDLEY DY3 4PE
Received 6 Jan 2026Land To The North East Of Gravelly Way Four Ashes
Received 18 Dec 20251 Edwin Close Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5HB
Received 29 Dec 2025Hideaway Edge Church Road Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6HX
Received 4 Jan 2026124 Birches Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2JP
Received 6 Jan 2026Dunelm Hazel Lane Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6AA
Received 6 Jan 202640 Penleigh Gardens Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 8EJ
Received 7 Jan 2026Chillington Estate Chillington Park Chillington
Received 7 Jan 2026The Haven Manor Lane Bobbington STOURBRIDGE DY7 5EG
Received 7 Jan 20264 Waverley Gardens Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9EB
Received 8 Jan 202652 Upper Landywood Lane Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7AX
Received 9 Jan 2026Records 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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