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11,170 approved · 863 refused · 700 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
127 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NP
Received 2 Jul 202055 Sish Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 3LS
Received 3 Jul 2020Six Hills House Kings Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1AW
Received 3 Jul 2020Greenside Special School Shephall Green Stevenage Herts SG2 9XS
Received 3 Jul 202018 Fishers Green Stevenage Herts SG1 2JA
Received 6 Jul 2020162 Telford Avenue Stevenage Herts SG2 0AT
Received 6 Jul 2020Land Adjacent To 39 Jessop Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5LG
Received 6 Jul 202054 Dryden Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 0JG
Received 7 Jul 202076 Shephall View Stevenage Herts SG1 1RP
Received 7 Jul 2020288 Ripon Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4NG
Received 9 Jul 20202 Raban Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8JT
Received 9 Jul 20204 Pound Avenue Stevenage Herts SG1 3JA
Received 9 Jul 2020Land At Webb Rise Stevenage Herts SG1 5QU
Received 10 Jul 202058 Edison Road Stevenage Herts SG2 0DF
Received 13 Jul 202066 Dryden Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 0JQ
Received 13 Jul 2020206 Broadwater Crescent Stevenage Herts SG2 8ER
Received 13 Jul 2020Coptic Orthodox Church, Shephalbury Manor Shephalbury Park Broadhall Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8NP
Received 13 Jul 2020Longmeadow Symonds Green Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 2HP
Received 13 Jul 20208A Magellan Close Stevenage Herts SG2 0NF
Received 14 Jul 2020108 Marymead Drive Stevenage Herts SG2 8AG
Received 14 Jul 202086 Marlborough Road Stevenage Herts SG2 9HL
Received 14 Jul 202015 Hardwick Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8UF
Received 15 Jul 2020293 Archer Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5HF
Received 15 Jul 202050 Shephall Green Stevenage Herts SG2 9XS
Received 15 Jul 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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