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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.
3,939 approved · 462 refused · 237 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Sandacre Road Nine Elms Swindon SN5 5UW
Received 10 Jul 202316 Buie Close Sparcells Swindon SN5 5FX
Received 25 Jul 2023Fairview Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 25 Jul 2023Eldswyn Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 25 Jul 20239 Lidenbrook Liddington Swindon SN4 0HL
Received 25 Jul 202347 High Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7AG
Received 25 Jul 202347 High Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7AG
Received 25 Jul 202344 The Mall Old Town Swindon SN1 4JG
Received 26 Jul 2023Old Church Hall Priors Hill Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RT
Received 26 Jul 202361 Westlecot Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4EZ
Received 26 Jul 202324 Windermere Liden Swindon SN3 6JZ
Received 26 Jul 2023Flat 1 13 Oxford Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4HP
Received 27 Jul 2023350 Cheney Manor Road Swindon SN2 2PF
Received 27 Jul 2023Land To The South Of Gipsy Lane Swindon SN2 8BU
Received 27 Jul 2023Plots 41 And 54, Parcel 2.2 Tadpole Farm Tadpole Lane Blunsdon St Andrew Swindon SN26 8DZ
Received 27 Jul 2023The Cricketers Arms 14 Emlyn Square Railway Village Swindon SN1 5BN
Received 27 Jul 2023The Cottage Horpit Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AT
Received 28 Jul 202332 Mulcaster Avenue Grange Park Swindon SN5 6EH
Received 28 Jul 202321 Pasteur Drive Old Town Swindon SN1 4GH
Received 31 Jul 202334 Brooks Close Upper Stratton Swindon SN2 7RH
Received 31 Jul 2023The Old Inn Bodyhorse Hill Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DH
Received 31 Jul 2023The Oaks 2A Pleydell Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4DH
Received 31 Jul 2023Civic Offices Civic Campus Euclid Street Swindon SN1 2JH
Received 31 Jul 2023Land To The North Of The Grove Hinton Parva Lane Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DH
Received 1 Aug 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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