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 Stroud District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,397 approved · 448 refused · 365 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Apr 2012 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Minchinhampton Old Golf Course Minchinhampton Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 9AQ
Received 11 Mar 2025Play Area Queens Drive Cashes Green Stroud Gloucestershire
Received 3 Mar 20251 Yew Tree Cottages The Lagger Randwick Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 6HP
Received 11 Mar 2025Parcel R5 Hunts Grove Phase 4 Hunts Grove Drive Hardwicke Gloucester Gloucestershire
Received 11 Mar 2025Lullingworth Stroud Road Painswick Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 6UT
Received 11 Mar 2025Lullingworth Stroud Road Painswick Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 6UT
Received 11 Mar 2025Upper Rushmire Farm Old London Road Wotton-Under-Edge Gloucestershire GL12 7PT
Received 11 Mar 2025Three Storeys Old Bristol Road Nailsworth Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 0JE
Received 11 Mar 20258 Aston View Chalford Hill Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 8BG
Received 12 Mar 20257 Slad Road Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 1QJ
Received 12 Mar 2025Hermit Cottage St Marys Way Brownshill Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 8AJ
Received 12 Mar 20254 Silver Street Dursley Gloucestershire GL11 4ND
Received 12 Mar 2025Dunstalls Farm Arlingham Road Saul Gloucester Gloucestershire GL2 7JE
Received 12 Mar 2025Downside House Ashmead Cam Dursley Gloucestershire GL11 5HJ
Received 12 Mar 202511 Hawthorn Rise Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 4QW
Received 12 Mar 202596 Lantern Close Berkeley Gloucestershire GL13 9DE
Received 13 Mar 2025Blackberry Hill House Rockness Hill Nailsworth Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 0PJ
Received 13 Mar 2025Hill House Brownshill Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 8AQ
Received 13 Mar 2025Worthy View Hay Lane Horsley Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 0QD
Received 13 Mar 2025Oak Cottages Hyde Lane Whitminster Gloucestershire GL2 7LT
Received 5 Mar 2025Mill Orchard Pitchcombe Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 6LN
Received 7 Mar 2025Land At Nind Lane Kingswood Gloucestershire
Received 13 Mar 2025Lower Barn Farm Van Der Breen Street Bisley Stroud Gloucestershire
Received 13 Mar 2025Pitchcombe Mill Pitchcombe Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 6LN
Received 13 Mar 2025Records 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 Stroud District 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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