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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.
4,073 approved · 482 refused · 245 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Sept 1981 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
47 Bathampton Street Railway Village Swindon SN1 5EG
Received 8 Feb 2024Kia Motors Fish Brothers Unit J Bridgemead Industrial Estate Ashworth Road Bridgemead Swindon SN5 7UR
Received 8 Feb 2024153 Goddard Avenue Old Town Swindon SN1 4HX
Received 8 Feb 202417 Mayfield Close Nythe Swindon SN3 3NH
Received 9 Feb 2024Old Burderop Hospital Site Burderop Wroughton Swindon SN4 0QB
Received 8 Feb 202439 Station Road Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0PD
Received 12 Feb 202410 Winchester Close Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4HB
Received 12 Feb 2024Parva Stud Church Row Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DW
Received 11 Feb 202417 The Mall Old Town Swindon SN1 4JA
Received 11 Feb 20241 Greystone Mews Old Town Swindon SN3 1FJ
Received 13 Feb 20241 Greystone Mews Old Town Swindon SN3 1FJ
Received 13 Feb 2024Land At Moredon Recreation Ground Cheney Manor Industrial Estate Cheney Manor Swindon SN2 2QJ
Received 13 Feb 2024Unit 22 Elgin Industrial Estate Athena Avenue Elgin Swindon SN2 8EJ
Received 13 Feb 2024Land At (Phase 2.2)Tadpole Farm Tadpole Lane Blunsdon St Andrew Swindon SN26 8DZ
Received 13 Feb 2024Land At Shrivenham Road Highworth Swindon
Received 13 Feb 2024Unit 15 Greenbridge Retail Park Swindon SN3 3SQ
Received 13 Feb 202441 Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 1PH
Received 5 Feb 2024Alexandra House Whittingham Drive Wroughton Swindon SN4 0QJ
Received 13 Feb 2024High View Eastrop Highworth Swindon SN6 7PP
Received 14 Feb 2024Penhill Park Bowling Green Inglesham Road Penhill Swindon
Received 15 Feb 2024Former Oakfield Campus Marlowe Avenue Swindon SN3 3JR
Received 15 Feb 20243 Shuter Grove Swindon Swindon SN25 4ED
Received 15 Feb 2024The Hub Church Place Railway Village Swindon SN1 5EH
Received 15 Feb 2024The Chalet Church Row Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DW
Received 9 Feb 2024Records 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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