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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 Spelthorne Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,969 approved · 1,046 refused · 250 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 Feb 2000 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
47 High Street Staines-upon-Thames TW18 4QH
Received 19 Jul 201919 Vicarage Road Sunbury On Thames TW16 7QQ
Received 22 Jul 201913 Wheatsheaf Lane Staines-upon-Thames TW18 2PD
Received 22 Jul 20192 Old Manor Farm Church Street Sunbury On Thames TW16 6RG
Received 22 Jul 201913 Wheatsheaf Lane Staines-upon-Thames TW18 2PD
Received 22 Jul 201924 Lansdowne Road Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1HQ
Received 23 Jul 201912 Cherry Way Shepperton TW17 8QG
Received 23 Jul 2019Land At Queen Mary Quarry West Of Queen Mary Reservoir Ashford Road Laleham TW18 1QF
Received 23 Jul 2019St Saviours Church Vicarage Road Sunbury On Thames TW16 7TP
Received 23 Jul 2019Bugle Nurseries Upper Halliford Road Shepperton TW17 8SN
Received 24 Jul 20191 Everest Road Stanwell Staines-upon-Thames TW19 7EA
Received 24 Jul 20195 Guildford Street Staines-upon-Thames TW18 2EQ
Received 24 Jul 2019127 The Avenue Sunbury On Thames TW16 5EQ
Received 24 Jul 2019Ground Floor 3 Station Road Sunbury On Thames TW16 6SB
Received 24 Jul 2019Harper Home 29 - 31 Fordbridge Road Ashford TW15 2TB
Received 24 Jul 2019McDonalds 554 London Road Ashford TW15 3AE
Received 24 Jul 2019Council Offices Knowle Green Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1XB
Received 24 Jul 201920 Dorset Road Ashford TW15 3BY
Received 24 Jul 201933 Roper Crescent Sunbury On Thames TW16 5BA
Received 24 Jul 201968 Greenlands Road Staines-upon-Thames TW18 4LR
Received 25 Jul 201917 Allen Road Sunbury On Thames TW16 5LS
Received 24 Jul 201951 Station Crescent Ashford TW15 3HX
Received 25 Jul 201986 Nursery Gardens Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1ET
Received 25 Jul 20192 Cecil Close Ashford TW15 1RW
Received 23 Jul 2019Records 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 Spelthorne Borough 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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