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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 Swindon Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,937 approved · 462 refused · 237 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Phase 3 Badbury Park Land At Commonhead Swindon
Received 18 Jul 202334 Pewsham Road Penhill Swindon SN2 5EJ
Received 19 Jul 202338 Baxter Close Abbey Meads Swindon SN25 4XL
Received 19 Jul 202347 Horseshoe Crescent Peatmoor Swindon SN5 5AX
Received 19 Jul 202322 Hythe Road Old Town Swindon SN1 3NY
Received 19 Jul 2023314 Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 1NP
Received 19 Jul 202315 Gaynor Close Abbey Meads Swindon SN25 4XX
Received 19 Jul 2023Land Adjacent To Eden Field Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon
Received 19 Jul 2023Wichelstowe Development Area Southern Town Development Swindon Swindon
Received 19 Jul 2023West Wichel Wichelstowe Swindon
Received 19 Jul 202356 Purton Road Swindon SN2 2LZ
Received 19 Jul 202352 Western Street Old Town Swindon SN1 3JR
Received 20 Jul 2023Civic Offices Euclid Street Swindon SN1 2JH
Received 19 Jul 20232 Yew Tree Gardens South Marston Swindon SN3 4TU
Received 20 Jul 202313A Scarborough Road Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1LT
Received 21 Jul 202313 Regent Street Swindon SN1 1JQ
Received 11 Jul 2023Clifton House Lethbridge Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4BY
Received 20 Jul 20235 Overton Gardens Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4LZ
Received 21 Jul 2023Longways Front Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7BJ
Received 24 Jul 2023Land Adjacent To Eden Field Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon
Received 24 Jul 2023North Star House North Star Avenue Swindon SN2 1FF
Received 24 Jul 2023167 Redcliffe Street Swindon SN2 2DA
Received 24 Jul 202326 Mannington Park Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2EJ
Received 24 Jul 2023Manor Farm Manor Farm Lane South Marston Swindon SN3 4SJ
Received 24 Jul 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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