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 Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
374 approved · 14 refused · 7 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 Mar 2024 to 2 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 Churchill Crescent Marple Stockport SK6 6HL
Received 17 Jul 2026Side Of 17 Catterwood Drive Compstall Stockport SK6 5JT
Received 17 Jul 2026Outside 6 Fernhill Mellor Stockport SK6 5AN
Received 17 Jul 2026Outside 31 Longhurst Lane Marple Bridge Stockport SK6 5AE
Received 17 Jul 202615 Avon Street Cale Green Stockport SK3 8DR
Received 17 Jul 202614 Marlborough Avenue Cheadle Hulme Cheadle Stockport SK8 7AW
Received 17 Jul 202627 Park Road Romiley Stockport SK6 4AR
Received 17 Jul 2026Opposite 280 Longhurst Lane Mellor Stockport SK6 5PP
Received 7 Jul 2026Side Of 19 Wood Lane Marple Stockport SK6 7RE
Received 18 Jul 2026Outside 258A Strines Road Strines Stockport SK6 7GB
Received 7 Jul 2026Junction With 202 Church Lane And Telford Road Marple Stockport SK6 7LA
Received 7 Jul 2026137 Compstall Road Romiley Stockport SK6 4HX
Received 23 Jul 202648 The Crescent Davenport Stockport SK3 8SN
Received 23 Jul 2026Heaton House 16 Shaw Road Heaton Moor Stockport SK4 4AE
Received 20 Jul 2026Houldsworth Mill Houldsworth Street North Reddish Stockport SK5 6DA
Received 20 Jul 202615 Links Road Romiley Stockport SK6 4HU
Received 23 Jul 202655 Parsonage Road Heaton Moor Stockport SK4 4JW
Received 23 Jul 2026Nurses Home Cheadle Royal Hospital 100 Wilmslow Road Heald Green Cheadle
Received 20 Jul 202659 Lancastrian Way Woodford Stockport SK7 1SA
Received 21 Jul 202625 Oldridge Crescent Marple Stockport SK6 7FY
Received 21 Jul 2026Wear Mill Chestergate Stockport SK3 0AG
Received 21 Jul 2026219 George Lane Bredbury Stockport SK6 1DJ
Received 21 Jul 202622 Ullswater Road Heaviley Stockport SK1 4NH
Received 21 Jul 2026Land East Of The A34 And South Of A555 Handforth
Received 9 Jul 2026Records 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 Stockport Metropolitan 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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