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.
10,208 approved · 841 refused · 650 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
82 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NS
Received 27 Mar 20177 Woodland Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8BX
Received 27 Mar 201710 Carters Close Stevenage Herts SG2 9QA
Received 28 Mar 201717 Bedwell Crescent Stevenage Herts SG1 1LU
Received 28 Mar 20179 Chestnut Walk Stevenage Herts SG1 4DD
Received 28 Mar 201727 Gordian Way Stevenage Herts SG2 7QF
Received 28 Mar 2017Chadwell Road Norton Green Stevenage Herts
Received 28 Mar 2017Brook House 101 Hertford Road Stevenage Herts SG2 8SE
Received 28 Mar 20175 Byron Close Stevenage Herts SG2 0JE
Received 28 Mar 20175 Letchmore Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3JH
Received 28 Mar 201716 Carters Close Stevenage Herts SG2 9QA
Received 28 Mar 201752 Uplands Stevenage Herts SG2 7DW
Received 29 Mar 201776 Gonville Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 9LU
Received 29 Mar 201752 Uplands Stevenage Herts SG2 7DW
Received 29 Mar 20178 Windsor Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8UD
Received 31 Mar 20173 Modular Business Park Norton Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2FZ
Received 31 Mar 2017Pin Green Community Centre 291 Archer Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5HF
Received 31 Mar 20172 Rectory Croft Rectory Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 4BY
Received 3 Apr 201735 Wildwood Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 1TB
Received 3 Apr 2017109A Blenheim Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8TD
Received 4 Apr 20177 Collenswood Road Stevenage Herts SG2 9ER
Received 4 Apr 20172 Wood Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 8PA
Received 4 Apr 201758 Longfields Stevenage Herts SG2 8QA
Received 5 Apr 201718 Kennett Way Stevenage Herts SG1 3XU
Received 6 Apr 2017Records 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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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.
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