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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.
9,511 approved · 1,455 refused · 582 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Southgate Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9JG
Received 24 Aug 2026Land At Mary Bond Court Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON Staffordshire WV5 8DA
Received 24 Aug 20263 Lower Farm Cottages Lawn Lane Coven WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5AX
Received 25 Aug 20267 Connaught Drive Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9AT
Received 25 Aug 202661 Idonia Road Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7NQ
Received 25 Aug 202639 Suckling Green Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2BP
Received 25 Aug 2026Loades Business Park Holly Lane Great Wyrley WS6 6BD
Received 26 Aug 2026Prime Oak Whitehouse Lane Swindon DUDLEY DY3 4PE
Received 26 Aug 202645 Sandy Lane Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1EW
Received 21 Aug 202617 Sandy Lane Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9ET
Received 26 Aug 2026Lower Drayton Farm Lower Drayton Lane Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5RE
Received 26 Aug 2026Mill Barn 2 Stretton Mill Stretton Mill Road Stretton STAFFORD ST19 9LH
Received 20 Aug 2026Tanglewood 2 Kenderdine Close Bednall STAFFORD ST17 0YS
Received 27 Aug 2026Fishley Park Leisure Centre Fishley Lane Walsall WALSALL WS3 5AE
Received 27 Aug 2026Jaguar Land Rover Wolverhampton Unit B Innovation Drive Pendeford WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5GA
Received 27 Aug 2026Whitehouse Farm Whitehouse Lane Swindon DUDLEY DY3 4PE
Received 28 Aug 2026Land At Beech Grove Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4QW
Received 19 Aug 2026Land At Silver Birch Road Huntington CANNOCK WS12 4QN
Received 20 Aug 202614 Biggin Close Perton WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7LJ
Received 28 Aug 2026Weston Park And Parkland Weston Park Weston Under Lizard
Received 28 Aug 202615 Mount Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9EU
Received 28 Aug 2026Borlange Whittamoor Lane Longridge STAFFORD ST18 9AN
Received 1 Sept 202644 Manor Avenue Great Wyrley WALSALL WS6 6NS
Received 1 Sept 2026Land To The North Of Pool House Road Wombourne
Received 1 Sept 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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