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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9,520 approved · 1,455 refused · 582 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Smestow Gate Cottage Smestow Road Swindon DUDLEY DY3 4PJ
Received 26 Jan 202615 Grasmere Avenue Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7PW
Received 26 Jan 202630 Shackleton Drive Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7SA
Received 27 Jan 202658 Ounsdale Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 8BH
Received 27 Jan 2026Bednall Bank Cottage Cannock Road Bednall STAFFORD ST17 0SH
Received 27 Jan 2026St Marks Church Hall Station Road Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6LJ
Received 27 Jan 20262 Drive Fields Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4XY
Received 27 Jan 2026Arcare Orton Meadows Ltd 91 Orton Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4XA
Received 27 Jan 20261 Bowen Cooke Avenue Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7YG
Received 23 Jan 2026The Lodge Park Mount Stourbridge Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0JN
Received 27 Jan 20262 Drive Fields Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4XY
Received 27 Jan 202626 Sutherland Road Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7BS
Received 28 Jan 2026The Beeches 70 Feiashill Road Trysull WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 7HT
Received 28 Jan 2026Borger UK Limited East Wing The Old School Watling Street Gailey STAFFORD ST19 5PR
Received 28 Jan 2026The Thatch Oaken Lane Oaken WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2BD
Received 29 Jan 2026West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 29 Jan 202658 Ounsdale Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 8BH
Received 29 Jan 2026The Pastures Blacklands Barns Six Ashes Road Halfpenny Green STOURBRIDGE DY7 5DP
Received 30 Jan 2026White Harte Caravan Site High Street Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6HN
Received 16 Jan 20266 Keepers Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2DW
Received 30 Jan 2026Innamincka Cannock Road Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5DT
Received 30 Jan 2026Land At Ivetsey Bank Road Bishops Wood Stafford ST19 9AE
Received 22 Jan 2026Beaumont House Lawnswood Road Lawnswood STOURBRIDGE DY7 5QP
Received 1 Feb 202622 Canford Crescent Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2AF
Received 2 Feb 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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