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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 Sunderland City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
722 approved · 89 refused · 21 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Apr 2006 to 18 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Land East Of Primate Road Sunderland
Received 20 Aug 2026Kepier Dairy Lane Houghton-le-Spring DH4 5BH
Received 20 Aug 2026Kepier Dairy Lane Houghton-le-Spring DH4 5BH
Received 20 Aug 202618 Heathfield Sunderland SR2 9EW
Received 20 Aug 2026New Derby Roker Baths Road Sunderland SR6 9TA
Received 20 Aug 2026Former Albion Public House 197 Southwick Road Sunderland SR5 2AA
Received 20 Aug 2026Basement Flat 5 The Cloisters Sunderland SR2 7BD
Received 20 Aug 20265 The Cloisters Sunderland
Received 21 Aug 2026Land At Holly Avenue Houghton-le-Spring
Received 21 Aug 202611 The Grove Ashbrooke Sunderland SR2 7HF
Received 21 Aug 2026Land West Of Tunstall Lodge Hotel Burdon Road Tunstall Sunderland
Received 21 Aug 2026Basement Flat And Ground Floor Flat 2-6 Mowbray House Tunstall Road Sunderland SR2 7RT
Received 22 Aug 2026First And Second Floor 2-6 Mowbray House Tunstall Road Sunderland
Received 22 Aug 20263 Riversdale Terrace Sunderland SR2 7NQ
Received 23 Aug 2026Land At Sheepfolds Industrial Estate Monkwearmouth Sunderland
Received 24 Aug 2026Houghton House 3 Emperor Way Doxford International Sunderland SR3 3XR
Received 24 Aug 2026Farringdon Community Academy Allendale Road Sunderland SR3 3EL
Received 24 Aug 2026Mill Garages Volvo 2 Hylton Grange Sunderland SR5 3HR
Received 24 Aug 2026Land To The West Of Penshaw Hill House And Cottage Chester Road Shiney Row Houghton-le-Spring
Received 24 Aug 2026Land South Of Cygnet Way Cygnet Way Rainton Bridge South Houghton-le-Spring
Received 3 Aug 2026David Puttnam Media Centre Sir Tom Cowie Campus Liberty Way Sunderland SR6 0DD
Received 25 Aug 2026Mill Garages Volvo 2 Hylton Grange Sunderland SR5 3HR
Received 25 Aug 2026The Mowbray Apartments Borough Road Sunderland SR1 1PS
Received 26 Aug 2026Crawcrook Quarry Crawcrook Lane Crawcrook NE40 3UL
Received 26 Aug 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 Sunderland City 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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