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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.
9,516 approved · 1,455 refused · 582 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
16 Long Croft Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4LY
Received 7 Jul 2026Appletree Lodge Fairfield Lane Otherton STAFFORD ST19 5NX
Received 8 Jul 20266 Henney Close Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5TD
Received 8 Jul 202671 Suckling Green Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2BT
Received 8 Jul 2026The Mount Golf Club Wrottesley Park Road Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7HL
Received 8 Jul 2026Moat Meadow Cottage Lower Penkridge Road Acton Trussell STAFFORD ST17 0RJ
Received 9 Jul 2026153 Hyperion Road Stourton STOURBRIDGE DY7 6SJ
Received 9 Jul 2026Woodland Adjacent To Crockington Lane Seisdon
Received 9 Jul 2026Kinver Mount Comber Grove Kinver
Received 10 Jul 2026Unit 1 Wombourne Enterprise Park Bridgnorth Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 0AL
Received 10 Jul 2026Church Hill House Church Hill The Compa Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6HY
Received 10 Jul 2026SAD Site 285 Pool House Road Wombourne
Received 10 Jul 2026SAD Site 285 Pool House Road Wombourne
Received 10 Jul 2026Sunnymead Wynne Crescent Lower Penn WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4SW
Received 13 Jul 202685 Enville Road Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6BU
Received 6 Jul 2026Pear Tree Farm Stafford Road Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4PE
Received 14 Jul 2026Pear Tree Farm Stafford Road Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4PE
Received 14 Jul 2026Land To The South Of Pendeford Mill Lane Bilbrook
Received 14 Jul 2026Land To The South Of Pendeford Mill Lane And West Of Barnhurst Road Codsall Wolverhampton WV8 1FR
Received 14 Jul 2026Subani House Old Stafford Road Slade Heath WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7PJ
Received 14 Jul 2026Fishers Farm 52 Upper Landywood Lane Cheslyn Hay WALSALL WS6 7AX
Received 14 Jul 20262 Lower Drayton Cottages Lower Drayton Lane Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5RE
Received 29 Jun 202639 Farran Drive Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1FA
Received 14 Jul 2026White Cottage Orton Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV4 4XB
Received 14 Jul 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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