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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Spelthorne Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Spelthorne website
11,105 approved · 1,936 refused · 501 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 Feb 2000 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
108 The Avenue Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 5EX
Received 20 Feb 2026149 Kingston Road Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1PD
Received 23 Feb 2026Sunbury Riding School Riding Stables Beasleys Ait Lane Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 6AS
Received 23 Feb 2026Trend 143 Gaston Way Shepperton TW17 8ET
Received 23 Feb 2026404 Staines Road West Ashford TW15 1RZ
Received 23 Feb 202615 Stanhope Heath Stanwell Staines-upon-Thames TW19 7PH
Received 23 Feb 202624 Manor Farm Avenue Shepperton TW17 9AE
Received 23 Feb 2026203 Town Lane Stanwell Staines-upon-Thames TW19 7PN
Received 23 Feb 202622 Silverdale Drive Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 6HD
Received 24 Feb 202623 Orchard Avenue Ashford TW15 1JB
Received 24 Feb 202666 Manor Lane Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 6JA
Received 24 Feb 2026Land At Cedar Close Laleham
Received 24 Feb 202648 Hogarth Avenue Ashford TW15 1QA
Received 24 Feb 2026Peacock House Walton Lane Shepperton TW17 8LQ
Received 25 Feb 202669 Gordon Close Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1AP
Received 26 Feb 202627 Willowbrook Road Stanwell Staines-upon-Thames TW19 7AB
Received 26 Feb 20265 Church Street Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 6RQ
Received 26 Feb 2026Site Of Heorot Swann Cottage And The Cabin Laleham Reach Chertsey KT16 8RP
Received 26 Feb 202673 Nursery Gardens Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1EL
Received 26 Feb 202641 Lyndhurst Avenue Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 6QZ
Received 27 Feb 2026Steak Shack Retail Unit At Junction Of Short Lane London Road Ashford TW14 8FP
Received 27 Feb 2026NatWest 3 - 5 Woodthorpe Road Ashford TW15 2RL
Received 27 Feb 202622 Wheatsheaf Lane Staines-upon-Thames TW18 2PE
Received 27 Feb 2026220 Thames Side Laleham Staines-upon-Thames TW18 1UQ
Received 27 Feb 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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