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.
7,269 approved · 641 refused · 392 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 2007 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Julians Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3ES
Received 14 Jun 2011Lister Hospital Coreys Mill Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 4AB
Received 13 Jun 20113 Buckthorn Avenue Stevenage Herts SG1 1TT
Received 14 Jun 201166 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NR
Received 14 Jun 20113 Buckthorn Avenue Stevenage Herts SG1 1TT
Received 14 Jun 20112 Brook Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 8TT
Received 15 Jun 201123 Durham Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4JG
Received 15 Jun 20111 Granby Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4AR
Received 15 Jun 201137 Swale Close Stevenage Herts
Received 16 Jun 2011Unit 1D, Roaring Meg Retail Park London Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1XJ
Received 16 Jun 2011Norton Green Farm Chadwell Road Norton Green Stevenage Herts SG1 2DS
Received 16 Jun 201140 Mandeville Stevenage Herts SG2 8JJ
Received 21 Jun 20119 Shoreham Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2JF
Received 17 Jun 201183 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NP
Received 20 Jun 20113 Dewpond Close Stevenage Herts SG1 3BL
Received 22 Jun 2011Stop & Shop 4 Burwell Road Stevenage Herts SG2 9RF
Received 23 Jun 2011Tesco Stores Ltd The Forum Town Centre Stevenage Herts
Received 24 Jun 2011Unit 5 Fulton Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2AF
Received 24 Jun 201140 Tamar Close Stevenage Herts
Received 27 Jun 201155 Spring Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 8BD
Received 28 Jun 201132 - 34 Market Place Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1DB
Received 30 Jun 201120 Ashburnham Walk Stevenage Herts SG2 8DZ
Received 30 Jun 20114 Nicholas Place Rectory Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 4BZ
Received 30 Jun 2011Lister Hospital Coreys Mill Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 4AB
Received 28 Jun 2011Records 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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