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.
10,966 approved · 856 refused · 695 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23 Cholwell Road Stevenage Herts SG2 9JY
Received 15 Jul 2018Stevenage Borough Football Club Broadhall Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8RH
Received 16 Jul 20185 Newbury Close Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 4TE
Received 16 Jul 20184 Dawlish Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8UQ
Received 17 Jul 201838C Queensway Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1EE
Received 17 Jul 201818-20 High Street Stevenage Herts SG1 3EJ
Received 18 Jul 2018Stevenage Railway Station Lytton Way Stevenage Herts SG1 1HH
Received 28 Jun 201818-20 High Street Stevenage Herts SG1 3EJ
Received 18 Jul 201847 Walkern Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3RA
Received 18 Jul 20188 Windsor Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8UD
Received 18 Jul 201821 East Reach Stevenage Herts SG2 9AU
Received 19 Jul 2018Land Adjacent To 93 Shearwater Close Stevenage Herts SG2 9RX
Received 19 Jul 2018140 Minehead Way Stevenage Herts SG1 2JL
Received 20 Jul 2018105 And 107 Ingleside Drive Stevenage Herts SG1 4RY
Received 20 Jul 2018109 Blenheim Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8TD
Received 20 Jul 201817 Granby Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4AR
Received 23 Jul 20182 Speke Close Stevenage Herts SG2 0NQ
Received 23 Jul 2018Meadway Court Rutherford Close Stevenage Herts
Received 23 Jul 2018Courtlands Todds Green Stevenage Herts
Received 23 Jul 201812 Park Place Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1DU
Received 24 Jul 20183 Olde Swann Court Stevenage Herts SG1 3WB
Received 25 Jul 20189 Franklins Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3BW
Received 25 Jul 201821 Trent Close Stevenage Herts SG1 3RS
Received 26 Jul 2018Mercedes-Benz Stevenage Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BT
Received 27 Jul 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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