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.
10,775 approved · 852 refused · 688 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Jun 2000 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Lygrave Stevenage Herts SG2 8LB
Received 8 Feb 2018129 Kimbolton Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 8RN
Received 8 Feb 201810 Mandeville Stevenage Herts SG2 8JH
Received 9 Feb 2018Caxton Point Caxton Way Stevenage Herts
Received 9 Feb 20183 Nursery Cottage Symonds Green Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 2HP
Received 9 Feb 201870A Basils Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3PU
Received 12 Feb 201844 Brunel Road Stevenage Herts SG2 0AB
Received 12 Feb 201842 Angotts Mead Stevenage Herts SG1 2NJ
Received 14 Feb 201826 Cuttys Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 1UN
Received 14 Feb 201813 Sweyns Mead Stevenage Herts SG2 0JZ
Received 15 Feb 2018228 Mildmay Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5SR
Received 15 Feb 201846 Spring Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 8AZ
Received 15 Feb 2018The Barn 116 High Street Stevenage Herts SG1 3DW
Received 16 Feb 201815 Briardale Stevenage Herts SG1 1TP
Received 19 Feb 201813 Brunel Road Stevenage Herts SG2 0AB
Received 19 Feb 201819 Eliot Road Stevenage Herts SG2 0LL
Received 19 Feb 201826 Exchange Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1PZ
Received 19 Feb 2018526 Ripon Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4NJ
Received 20 Feb 2018Specsavers Opticians 90 Queensway Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1EG
Received 20 Feb 2018167 Collenswood Road Stevenage Herts SG2 9HD
Received 21 Feb 20185 Green Acres Stevenage Herts SG2 8ND
Received 21 Feb 2018MBDA UK Six Hills Way Stevenage Herts SG1 2DA
Received 21 Feb 20185 Ditchmore Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 3LJ
Received 22 Feb 201814 Anderson Road Stevenage Herts SG2 0LW
Received 23 Feb 2018Records 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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