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.
11,012 approved · 857 refused · 698 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
169 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NE
Received 12 Sept 201811 Shephall Green Stevenage Herts SG2 9XR
Received 13 Sept 2018128 Shephall View Stevenage Herts SG1 1RR
Received 14 Sept 2018377 Jessop Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5LX
Received 14 Sept 201868 Leaves Spring Stevenage Herts SG2 9BH
Received 14 Sept 2018110 Valley Way Stevenage Herts SG2 9DE
Received 17 Sept 201828 Fishers Green Stevenage Herts SG1 2JA
Received 17 Sept 201879 Four Acres Stevenage Herts SG1 3PJ
Received 17 Sept 20186 Green Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8BP
Received 18 Sept 2018Anson 137 Hertford Road Stevenage Herts SG2 8ST
Received 18 Sept 201826A Fishers Green Stevenage Herts SG1 2JA
Received 18 Sept 201847 Boxfield Green Stevenage Herts SG2 7DR
Received 18 Sept 2018East Of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust 4 Babbage Road Stevenage Herts
Received 19 Sept 2018108 Mobbsbury Way Stevenage Herts SG2 0JA
Received 20 Sept 2018377 Jessop Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5LX
Received 20 Sept 201821 Whomerley Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1SP
Received 20 Sept 201856 Beane Avenue Stevenage Herts SG2 7DL
Received 21 Sept 201874 Mobbsbury Way Stevenage Herts SG2 0HX
Received 21 Sept 201840 Archer Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5HA
Received 24 Sept 201829 Hayfield Stevenage Herts SG2 7JP
Received 24 Sept 201841 Whitney Drive Stevenage Herts SG1 4BQ
Received 24 Sept 201847 Chapman Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4RJ
Received 19 Sept 201895 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NP
Received 24 Sept 201827 Franklins Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3BN
Received 26 Sept 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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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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