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.
11,184 approved · 863 refused · 700 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 2000 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Station Car Park North Lytton Way Stevenage Herts
Received 23 Sept 202239 Fishers Green Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2PD
Received 24 Sept 2022Unit 11A And Unit 11B Roaring Meg Retail Park London Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1XN
Received 24 Sept 2022162 Fairview Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2NE
Received 28 Sept 202217 Fox Road Stevenage Herts SG1 1JD
Received 28 Sept 2022Meggitt Six Hills Way Stevenage Herts SG1 2DH
Received 28 Sept 2022Icon Building Lytton Way Stevenage Herts
Received 29 Sept 2022Bunyan Baptist Church Basils Road Stevenage Herts SG1 3PU
Received 30 Sept 20225 Kenmare Close Stevenage Herts
Received 2 Oct 2022Next Unit 5-7 The Forum Centre The Forum Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1ES
Received 3 Oct 2022MBDA UK Six Hills Way Stevenage Herts SG1 2DA
Received 3 Oct 2022166A High Street Stevenage Herts SG1 3LL
Received 3 Oct 20227 Faraday Road Stevenage Herts SG2 0BJ
Received 4 Oct 20223 Woodfield Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4BP
Received 4 Oct 20221 Essex Close Stevenage Herts SG1 3FA
Received 5 Oct 202251 Mobbsbury Way Stevenage Herts SG2 0HX
Received 5 Oct 20227A North Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4BD
Received 5 Oct 202242 Sandown Road Stevenage Herts SG1 5SF
Received 5 Oct 2022Specialist Cars BMW Stevenage Arlington Business Park Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Herts SG1 2BE
Received 5 Oct 202214 Foster Close Stevenage Herts SG1 4SA
Received 6 Oct 2022MBDA UK Six Hills Way Stevenage Herts SG1 2DA
Received 6 Oct 2022356 York Road Stevenage Herts SG1 4EL
Received 7 Oct 202217 Austen Paths Stevenage Herts SG2 0NJ
Received 7 Oct 202235 Walnut Tree Close Stevenage Herts SG2 9RS
Received 7 Oct 2022Records 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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