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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.
9,509 approved · 1,455 refused · 582 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 Sandy Lane Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9ET
Received 29 Sept 2026Land Off Four Ashes Road Brewood Stafford
Received 29 Sept 2026Land Off Four Ashes Road Brewood Stafford
Received 29 Sept 2026Land Off Four Ashes Road Brewood Stafford
Received 29 Sept 2026Land Off Four Ashes Road Brewood Stafford
Received 29 Sept 2026Land Off Four Ashes Road Brewood Stafford
Received 29 Sept 202684 Church View Gardens Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6EE
Received 25 Sept 202617 Church Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1EA
Received 29 Sept 2026Hilton Cross Business Park Cannock Road Featherstone WOLVERHAMPTON WV10 7QZ
Received 1 Oct 2026The Hayloft Whitehouse Lane Codsall Wood WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 1QG
Received 1 Oct 2026The Summer House Long Common Claverley WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 7AX
Received 1 Oct 2026St Benedict Biscop Church Church Road Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9EZ
Received 1 Oct 2026Staffordshire County Council Brindley Heath Junior School Enville Road Kinver STOURBRIDGE DY7 6AA
Received 2 Oct 20263 Hall Farm Road Brewood STAFFORD ST19 9EZ
Received 2 Oct 2026Nurton Hill Hall Nurton Hill Road Pattingham WOLVERHAMPTON WV6 7HG
Received 2 Oct 2026Land To The South Of Pendeford Mill Lane Bilbrook (West Of Bilbrook Mill)
Received 3 Oct 2026Oak Hollow Watling Street Four Crosses CANNOCK WS11 1RY
Received 9 Oct 2026Oak Hollow Watling Street Four Crosses CANNOCK WS11 1RY
Received 3 Oct 20263 Buttermere Drive Essington Wolverhampton WV11 2SA
Received 3 Oct 2026Severn Trent Water Limited Bratch Pumping Station Bratch Lane Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 8DN
Received 5 Oct 2026Highfield Histons Hill Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2ER
Received 2 Oct 202629 Fairfield Drive Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2AE
Received 6 Oct 2026Penkridge Parish Council Haling Dene Centre Cannock Road Penkridge STAFFORD ST19 5DT
Received 6 Oct 2026Wombourne Youth And Community Centre Windmill Bank Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9EZ
Received 7 Oct 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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