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.
11,170 approved · 863 refused · 700 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
214 Chertsey Rise Stevenage Herts SG2 9JQ
Received 25 Jan 2019111 Chancellors Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4TZ
Received 26 Jan 2019Benoni Symonds Green Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 2HP
Received 28 Jan 20197 Nash Close Stevenage Herts SG2 0AP
Received 28 Jan 201924 Woodland Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8BT
Received 29 Jan 2019Land To East Of Gresley Way Stevenage Herts
Received 29 Jan 2019117 The Pastures Stevenage Herts SG2 7DF
Received 29 Jan 2019The Olde Cottage High Street Stevenage Herts SG1 3EJ
Received 30 Jan 20197 Dryden Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 0JG
Received 30 Jan 2019132 Shephall View Stevenage Herts SG1 1RR
Received 31 Jan 2019Land At Maxwell Road Stevenage Herts
Received 31 Jan 201921-29 Town Square Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1BP
Received 1 Feb 2019471 Archer Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5QR
Received 1 Feb 201911 Nursery Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8SD
Received 1 Feb 2019Symonds Green Dental Practice 188 Scarborough Avenue Stevenage Herts SG1 2HW
Received 2 Feb 20195 Fir Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8DA
Received 3 Feb 201912 Gorleston Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2JS
Received 3 Feb 2019MBDA UK Six Hills Way Stevenage Herts SG1 2DA
Received 4 Feb 20192A Brook Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 8TT
Received 4 Feb 201957 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NT
Received 4 Feb 201981 Brook Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 8TP
Received 5 Feb 201992 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NS
Received 5 Feb 20194 Fishers Green Stevenage Herts SG1 2JA
Received 5 Feb 201910 Cameron Close Stevenage Herts SG2 0HG
Received 6 Feb 2019Records 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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