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.
9,986 approved · 838 refused · 637 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Oct 2001 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tarrant Court Ingleside Drive Stevenage Herts SG1 4RG
Received 8 Nov 201627 Dryden Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 0JH
Received 8 Nov 20164-8 Norton Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BB
Received 8 Nov 20167 Broad Oak Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8QL
Received 8 Nov 201657 Angotts Mead Stevenage Herts SG1 2NJ
Received 9 Nov 201622 Alleyns Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3PP
Received 9 Nov 2016Coreys Mill Lane Stevenage Herts
Received 7 Nov 20162 Newlyn Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2JD
Received 9 Nov 2016132 Canterbury Way Stevenage Herts SG1 4DJ
Received 12 Nov 201658 Abbots Grove Stevenage Herts SG1 1NS
Received 14 Nov 201643 Tamar Close Stevenage Herts
Received 14 Nov 2016Unit 4B Roaring Meg Retail Park London Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1XN
Received 14 Nov 2016Land Adjoining 88 Marlborough Road Stevenage Herts SG2 9HL
Received 14 Nov 201633 And 35 Leaves Spring Stevenage Herts SG2 9AT
Received 14 Nov 201685 The Willows Stevenage Herts SG2 8AW
Received 14 Nov 2016Unit 2 Oaklands Retail Park London Road Stevenage SG1 1XW
Received 15 Nov 20161 Bawdsey Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2LA
Received 15 Nov 201624 Headingley Close Stevenage Herts SG1 3RU
Received 17 Nov 20167 Wood Green Close Stevenage Hertfordshire SG2 8GB
Received 17 Nov 2016Icon Building Lytton Way Stevenage Herts
Received 15 Nov 2016Unit 4B Roaring Meg Retail Park London Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1XN
Received 18 Nov 2016DuPont (UK) Ltd Wedgwood Way Stevenage Herts SG1 4QN
Received 18 Nov 201677 Longfields Stevenage Herts SG2 8QA
Received 21 Nov 2016Wisden Court Wisden Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5JD
Received 21 Nov 2016Records 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 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.
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