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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9,523 approved · 1,455 refused · 582 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fair Haven Shaw Hall Lane Coven Heath WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7HE
Received 17 Apr 202616 Long Croft Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4LY
Received 6 May 2026Ridgehill Wood Lodge Lane Kingswinford West Midlands
Received 6 May 2026Friars Gorse Wood Lawnswood Drive Lawnswood
Received 6 May 2026Lawnswood Road Lawnswood
Received 6 May 2026Dudley And Kingswinford Rugby Football Club Swindon Road Hinksford KINGSWINFORD DY6 0AW
Received 7 May 2026Land To The Rear Of 199 Kingsley Road Ridgehill Wood Lodge Lane Kingswinford West Midlands
Received 6 May 2026St Marks Church Station Road Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6LJ
Received 7 May 2026Land At Oxford Close Great Wyrley WS6 6BT
Received 7 May 2026Stable Cottage Leaton Lane Bobbington DY7 5DE
Received 28 Apr 20269 Sandy Lane Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9ET
Received 10 May 2026Burnhill Green Farmhouse Burnhill Green Road Burnhill Green WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7JG
Received 11 May 202621 Lansdowne Avenue Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2EN
Received 11 May 2026Long Meadow Himley Lane Himley DUDLEY DY3 4LP
Received 11 May 2026Littleton Arms St Michaels Square Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5AL
Received 12 May 2026Ridge House Pattingham Road Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7HD
Received 12 May 2026Bradford Estate, Land Adjacent To A5 And A41
Received 12 May 2026Land To The North Of Pool House Road Wombourne
Received 12 May 2026Pattingham Vineyard Great Moor Road Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7AU
Received 13 May 2026Westmidlands Society Model Engineers Model Railway Track High Street Kinver
Received 13 May 2026Stonegarth Greenhill Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0LD
Received 4 May 2026The Old School House Church Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1EF
Received 27 Apr 202648 Birches Park Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2DT
Received 14 May 20262 Cedar Vale Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6FB
Received 14 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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