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 Swindon Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,806 approved · 448 refused · 223 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Sept 1981 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent To 252 Croft Road Swindon SN1 4RW
Received 7 Feb 2023Roundhill Farm Lechlade Road Highworth Swindon SN6 7QR
Received 7 Feb 2023Land North Of A420 Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 8 Feb 2023Freshbrook Village Centre, Tesco Express Worsley Road Freshbrook Swindon SN5 8LY
Received 8 Feb 2023Former Oakfield Campus Marlowe Avenue Swindon
Received 8 Feb 2023Fairlands 36 Rochford Close Grange Park Swindon SN5 6AB
Received 9 Feb 2023Prospect Quarter 61 Prospect Place Old Town Swindon SN1 3ET
Received 27 Jan 202318 Manor Crescent Moredon Swindon SN2 2LF
Received 9 Feb 202325 Spencer Close The Prinnels Swindon SN5 6NF
Received 9 Feb 202318 - 20 Commercial Road Swindon SN1 5NS
Received 30 Jan 202334-35 Regent Circus & 128-129 Commercial Road Swindon SN1 1PY
Received 30 Jan 202318 - 20 Commercial Road Swindon SN1 5NS
Received 30 Jan 2023Sn1 Station Road Swindon
Received 30 Jan 202328 Rawston Close Nythe Swindon SN3 3PW
Received 9 Feb 202340 St Ambrose Close Covingham Swindon SN3 5EG
Received 9 Feb 2023Car Park At Comet Way Overtown Wroughton Swindon
Received 9 Feb 20237 Evelyn Street Old Town Swindon SN3 1RP
Received 10 Feb 202337 Hesketh Crescent Old Town Swindon SN3 1RY
Received 10 Feb 2023Lotmead Site Eastern Villages Swindon Swindon
Received 10 Feb 2023Plot 3 Symmetry Park Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 10 Feb 2023Former Oak & Ash House Brimble Hill Wroughton Swindon
Received 12 Feb 20233 Reynolds Way St Andrews Ridge Swindon SN25 4GF
Received 2 Feb 202371 Priors Hill Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RL
Received 2 Feb 20238 Caraway Drive Woodhall Park Swindon SN2 2RR
Received 13 Feb 2023Records 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 Swindon 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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