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11,174 approved · 863 refused · 700 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
16 St. Albans Drive Stevenage Herts SG1 4RU
Received 10 Aug 202120 Aldock Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3SJ
Received 10 Aug 202135 The Paddocks Stevenage Herts SG2 9TU
Received 10 Aug 20219 Sefton Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5RH
Received 10 Aug 2021Trotts Hill Primary School And Nursery Wisden Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5JD
Received 10 Aug 202127 Boswell Gardens Stevenage Herts SG1 4SB
Received 11 Aug 20215 Dunwich Farm Stevenage Herts SG1 2JX
Received 11 Aug 202128 Burwell Road Stevenage Herts SG2 9RH
Received 11 Aug 202130 Kingfisher Rise Stevenage Herts SG2 9PF
Received 11 Aug 20217 Essex Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3EZ
Received 11 Aug 202117 Berkeley Close Stevenage Herts SG2 8SG
Received 13 Aug 2021118 Letchmore Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3PT
Received 13 Aug 2021Land Adjacent To 39 Jessop Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5LG
Received 16 Aug 202155 Ely Close Stevenage Herts SG1 4NW
Received 16 Aug 202112 Cuttys Lane Stevenage Herts SG1 1UL
Received 16 Aug 2021Glaxo Sycamore House Leyden Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BP
Received 17 Aug 202116 Tamar Close Stevenage Herts
Received 17 Aug 202116 Oundle Court Stevenage Herts SG2 8LD
Received 17 Aug 20211 Nycolles Wood Stevenage Herts SG1 4GR
Received 18 Aug 2021Southend Farm 131 High Street Stevenage Herts SG1 3HS
Received 18 Aug 20212 Whitney Drive Stevenage Herts SG1 4BG
Received 18 Aug 2021Land Adjacent To Unit 6 Stevenage Enterprise Centre Orchard Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3HH
Received 18 Aug 20216 Pigeonswick Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2GU
Received 19 Aug 20217 Pigeonswick Close Stevenage Herts SG1 2GU
Received 19 Aug 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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