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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.
4,158 approved · 495 refused · 256 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
54 The Boulevard Taw Hill Swindon SN25 1WD
Received 15 Apr 20245 Cedars Close Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1JW
Received 15 Apr 202431 Minerva Heights Swindon Swindon SN26 8AB
Received 15 Apr 2024101 Bessemer Road East Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1PE
Received 16 Apr 2024Health Hydro Milton Road Swindon SN1 5JD
Received 15 Apr 2024Health Hydro Milton Road Swindon SN1 5JD
Received 15 Apr 2024Land Adjacent To Chacewater The Pitchens Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RU
Received 16 Apr 2024Little Thatch High Street Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AE
Received 16 Apr 2024Athelstan Badbury Lane Badbury Swindon SN4 0EU
Received 16 Apr 20243 Church Road Wanborough Swindon SN4 0BZ
Received 11 Apr 2024125 Graham Street Swindon SN1 2EX
Received 16 Apr 2024Anchor House 6 Regent Circus Swindon SN1 1PN
Received 16 Apr 2024Plum Tree House Rotten Row Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AN
Received 17 Apr 202427 Nursery Close Wroughton Swindon SN4 9DR
Received 17 Apr 2024Land At Shrivenham Road Highworth Swindon
Received 17 Apr 202410 Melbourne Close Lawn Swindon SN3 1JB
Received 18 Apr 2024ALDI Regional Distribution Centre Wellington Road Swindon SN3 4FN
Received 18 Apr 2024Parsonage Farm Ham Road Wanborough Swindon SN4 0DF
Received 19 Apr 20248 Mildmay Close Grange Park Swindon SN5 6HY
Received 25 Apr 20246 Verney Close Covingham Swindon SN3 5EF
Received 19 Apr 202412 King Henry Drive Grange Park Swindon SN5 6BL
Received 19 Apr 2024Former 22 - 23 Victoria Road Old Town Swindon
Received 17 Apr 202411 Walton Close Park South Swindon SN3 2JU
Received 25 Mar 2024Unit 1 Crompton Road Groundwell Industrial Estate Swindon SN25 5AW
Received 19 Apr 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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