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.
11,174 approved · 863 refused · 700 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 2000 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
20 Fox Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1JD
Received 9 Jun 2021Ross Court Stevenage Herts SG2 0HW
Received 9 Jun 2021572 Ripon Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4NL
Received 10 Jun 2021Unit 11 The Forum Centre The Forum Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1ES
Received 10 Jun 202131 Woodland Way Stevenage Herts SG2 8BU
Received 10 Jun 202149 St. Albans Drive Stevenage Herts SG1 4RU
Received 11 Jun 202142 Sandown Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5SF
Received 11 Jun 20219 Paddocks Close Stevenage Herts SG2 9UD
Received 14 Jun 2021TSB Bank 35-37 Market Place Stevenage Herts SG1 1DH
Received 14 Jun 202130 Minerva Close Stevenage Herts SG2 7RA
Received 14 Jun 2021McDonalds Monkswood Retail Park Elder Way Stevenage Herts SG1 1TL
Received 15 Jun 2021Glaxo Sycamore House Leyden Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BP
Received 16 Jun 20211 - 57 Tippett Court Stevenage Herts SG1 1XR
Received 16 Jun 20215 Olde Swann Court Stevenage Herts SG1 3WB
Received 16 Jun 20211 - 12 Fieldgate House Exchange Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1QA
Received 17 Jun 202112 - 23 Hillside House Stevenage Herts SG1 1PY
Received 17 Jun 2021Michael Faraday House Six Hills Way Stevenage Herts SG2 0QA
Received 17 Jun 2021Sycamore House Leyden Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BP
Received 17 Jun 2021395 Ripon Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4LU
Received 17 Jun 2021Glaxo SmithKline Research And Development Ltd Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NY
Received 18 Jun 202113 Headingley Close Stevenage Herts SG1 3RU
Received 18 Jun 202117 Berkeley Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8SG
Received 18 Jun 2021179 Ascot Crescent Stevenage Herts SG1 5SY
Received 18 Jun 20212 Wetherby Close Stevenage Herts SG1 5RX
Received 21 Jun 2021Records 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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