Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 Stevenage Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
7,590 approved · 678 refused · 428 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Oct 2006 to 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
6 Julians Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3ES
Received 15 Feb 2013Units 6 & 7 Gunnels Wood Park Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BH
Received 15 Feb 201311 Woodland Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8BX
Received 15 Feb 201359 Weston Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3RW
Received 18 Feb 201327 Dunn Close Stevenage Herts SG1 1SB
Received 19 Feb 2013Land Off Edmonds Drive Stevenage Herts
Received 20 Feb 2013Old Smithy 1 Hertford Road Stevenage Herts SG2 8DR
Received 21 Feb 20136 Morecambe Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2AZ
Received 22 Feb 201380 Lingfield Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5SN
Received 22 Feb 20137 Jackdaw Close Stevenage Herts SG2 9DA
Received 26 Feb 201375 Sparrow Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 9FB
Received 25 Feb 201331 Shephall Green Stevenage Herts SG2 9XS
Received 25 Feb 201365 Stephenson Mews Stevenage Herts SG2 8UW
Received 25 Feb 2013Land Adjacent To 16 Kennett Way Stevenage Herts SG1 3XU
Received 25 Feb 201366 Alleyns Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3PP
Received 25 Feb 2013167 Collenswood Road Stevenage Herts SG2 9HD
Received 25 Feb 2013111 Haycroft Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3NQ
Received 27 Feb 2013Land Off Edmonds Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 9TJ
Received 27 Feb 201372A High Street Stevenage Herts SG1 3EA
Received 28 Feb 2013Lloyds TSB Bank Plc 3 Town Square Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1BG
Received 28 Feb 20134 Clements Place And 10 Chestnut Walk Rectory Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 4FP
Received 28 Feb 201349 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NT
Received 28 Feb 2013Oxfam 11 Middle Row Stevenage Herts SG1 3AW
Received 1 Mar 201395 Haycroft Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3JT
Received 4 Mar 2013Records 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Stevenage 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.
Check collection coverage