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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.
9,523 approved · 1,455 refused · 582 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jan 2007 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
157 Cannock Road Westcroft WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 8QR
Received 29 Apr 2026Lodge Farm Lodge Lane Cheslyn Hay CANNOCK WS11 0LT
Received 29 Apr 2026Weston Park And Parkland Weston Park Weston Under Lizard
Received 29 Apr 202645 Honeysuckle Drive Featherstone WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7TD
Received 30 Apr 202624 Dean Street Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9BU
Received 30 Apr 202625 Church View Gardens Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6EE
Received 30 Apr 202612 Kingswood Drive Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6NX
Received 30 Apr 2026The Belt Cannock Road Shareshill
Received 20 Apr 2026Leighton Pool Chillington Lane Codsall Wood
Received 30 Apr 2026Heathfields Heath House Lane Codsall WV8 2HF
Received 28 Apr 202625 Suckling Green Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2BL
Received 1 May 2026Land At Littywood Farm Dunston Coppenhall South Staffordshire ST18 9AH
Received 1 May 2026Land To The South Of Pendeford Mill Lane Bilbrook
Received 1 May 2026Proposed Solar Farm Lawn Lane Coven
Received 1 May 202636 Pendeford Mill Lane Bilbrook WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1JG
Received 2 May 2026Weston Park And Parkland Weston Park Weston Under Lizard
Received 4 May 20261 Manor Farm Barns Bognop Road Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2AZ
Received 4 May 2026Red White And Blue Cannock Road Featherstone WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7AD
Received 5 May 2026The Bothy Patshull Park Burnhill Green WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7HY
Received 5 May 202693 Giggetty Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0AY
Received 5 May 2026The Dairy Lloyd Farm Barns Stourbridge Road Lloyd Hill WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 5NG
Received 6 May 20266 Chandler Drive Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 5NH
Received 6 May 202665 Broadmeadow Lane Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6EH
Received 23 Apr 2026Winander Radford Lane Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV3 8JT
Received 6 May 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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