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11,170 approved · 863 refused · 700 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Cornfields Stevenage Herts SG2 7RB
Received 31 Mar 2020375 Broadwater Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 8HA
Received 1 Apr 2020131 Mildmay Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5RS
Received 1 Apr 20203 Greydells Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3NL
Received 1 Apr 2020168 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NE
Received 2 Apr 2020164 Durham Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4HZ
Received 3 Apr 2020119 Broad Oak Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8RB
Received 4 Apr 20201-43 Shaftesbury Court Buckthorn Avenue Stevenage Herts SG1 1TX
Received 7 Apr 202043 Gordian Way Stevenage Herts SG2 7QF
Received 9 Apr 202037 Pankhurst Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 0QF
Received 9 Apr 202044 Barclay Crescent Stevenage Herts SG1 3NB
Received 10 Apr 202055A Whitney Drive Stevenage Herts SG1 4BH
Received 11 Apr 2020192 Jessop Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5LY
Received 12 Apr 202016 Greydells Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3NL
Received 13 Apr 20205 Jubilee Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2PG
Received 14 Apr 2020Unit 3 Motorway Ind Est Babbage Road Stevenage Herts
Received 14 Apr 202015 Faraday Road Stevenage Herts SG2 0BH
Received 15 Apr 2020202 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NA
Received 16 Apr 2020135 Broad Oak Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8RD
Received 16 Apr 2020MBDA UK Six Hills Way Stevenage Herts SG1 2DA
Received 17 Apr 202043 St. Margarets Stevenage Herts SG2 8RQ
Received 18 Apr 2020113 Hertford Road Stevenage Herts SG2 8SH
Received 18 Apr 202066 Leaves Spring Stevenage Herts SG2 9BH
Received 20 Apr 202067 Lingfield Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5SQ
Received 20 Apr 2020Records 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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