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11,170 approved · 863 refused · 700 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
15 Wisden Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5NH
Received 4 Dec 201958 Chells Way Stevenage Herts SG2 0LE
Received 5 Dec 2019148 Letchmore Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3PT
Received 5 Dec 201910 Chester Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4LD
Received 6 Dec 2019112 Mildmay Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5SW
Received 6 Dec 201921 Leaves Spring Stevenage Herts SG2 9AT
Received 5 Dec 201937 - 39 The Hyde Stevenage Herts SG2 9SB
Received 6 Dec 201990 Boxfield Green Stevenage Herts SG2 7DS
Received 7 Dec 201922 Fresson Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3QU
Received 8 Dec 20199 Beane Avenue Stevenage Herts SG2 7DL
Received 9 Dec 2019A6028/A1072 High Mast (Hitchin Rd) Hitchin Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4AE
Received 9 Dec 2019Glaxo Sycamore House Leyden Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BP
Received 9 Dec 201919 Made Feld Stevenage Herts SG1 1PQ
Received 9 Dec 2019188 Bedwell Crescent Stevenage Herts SG1 1NE
Received 10 Dec 201934 Angle Ways Stevenage Herts SG2 9AW
Received 11 Dec 201950 Warwick Road Stevenage Herts SG2 0QS
Received 13 Dec 2019Co-op 3 Filey Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2JW
Received 13 Dec 201916 Greydells Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3NL
Received 13 Dec 201940 Brick Kiln Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NH
Received 13 Dec 2019The Wine Society Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BG
Received 12 Dec 20197 Chouler Gardens Stevenage Herts SG1 4TB
Received 13 Dec 2019Costco Wholesale Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2FW
Received 14 Dec 201938B Queensway Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1EE
Received 17 Dec 201938B Queensway Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1EE
Received 17 Dec 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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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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