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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.
4,259 approved · 505 refused · 266 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Sept 1981 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Hesketh Crescent Old Town Swindon SN3 1RY
Received 9 Aug 202415 Paddock Close Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 1QL
Received 9 Aug 202420 Paulet Close Grange Park Swindon SN5 6JE
Received 9 Aug 2024Land Off Cooper Close Tadpole Garden Village Blunsdon St Andrew Swindon SN26 8DZ
Received 12 Aug 20248 Barnsley Close Tadpole Garden Village Swindon Swindon SN25 2TU
Received 12 Aug 202432 The Leasowes Tadpole Garden Village Swindon Swindon SN25 2RS
Received 12 Aug 202415 Rowan House Holbrook Way Swindon SN1 5BY
Received 12 Aug 20242 Verulam Close Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4AE
Received 9 Aug 2024The Oasis Leisure Centre Hawksworth Way Swindon SN2 1EP
Received 12 Aug 2024Starveal Barn Coleshill Road Highworth Swindon
Received 13 Aug 202411 Edgar Row Close Wroughton Swindon SN4 9LR
Received 12 Aug 2024Land East Of Roundhills Mead Lechlade Road Highworth Swindon
Received 12 Aug 2024Roundhill Farm Lechlade Road Highworth Swindon SN6 7QR
Received 13 Aug 2024Land At Gore Lane Farm Russley Park Bishopstone Swindon SN8 2JY
Received 13 Aug 2024Unit B The Dorcan Complex Faraday Road Dorcan Swindon SN3 5HQ
Received 13 Aug 2024Homelea Church Road Liddington Swindon SN4 0HB
Received 13 Aug 20249 Cartwright Drive Old Shaw Swindon SN5 5QU
Received 14 Aug 202421 Walcot Road Old Walcot Swindon SN3 1BH
Received 14 Aug 202470 Vistula Crescent Haydon End Swindon SN25 1QE
Received 14 Aug 2024Parcels R6 And R7 Land North Of A420 Swindon
Received 14 Aug 2024Unit 4 Keypoint Thornhill Road South Marston Swindon SN3 4RX
Received 14 Aug 202423 The Leasowes Tadpole Garden Village Swindon Swindon SN25 2RS
Received 15 Aug 2024Aldi Foodstore Drove Road Swindon
Received 14 Aug 202414 - 15 Regent Street Swindon SN1 1JQ
Received 14 Aug 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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