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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.
4,267 approved · 507 refused · 267 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
39 High Street Highworth Swindon SN6 7AQ
Received 9 Sept 2024Land Adjacent To 71 Bevisland Eldene Swindon SN3 6AN
Received 9 Sept 2024The Fraser Centre Area 5 Faraday Road Dorcan Swindon SN3 5HS
Received 6 Sept 20244 Merrivale Grove Old Walcot Swindon SN3 1EH
Received 9 Sept 20242 Beranburh Field Wroughton Swindon SN4 0QL
Received 6 Sept 20243 Whatleys Orchard Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8QB
Received 9 Sept 202410 Charolais Drive Ramleaze Swindon SN5 5RX
Received 9 Sept 202410 Edgar Row Close Wroughton Swindon SN4 9LR
Received 9 Sept 202415 Coate Lane Coate Swindon SN3 6AA
Received 9 Sept 202411 Greens Lane Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RJ
Received 9 Sept 202420 Capesthorne Drive Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 1UR
Received 9 Sept 2024Land At Hermitage Lane Stratton St Margaret Swindon
Received 9 Sept 20243 Tiverton Road Gorse Hill Swindon SN2 1AS
Received 9 Sept 2024113 Swindon Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9AD
Received 9 Sept 2024Former Pumping Station South View Avenue Old Walcot Swindon SN3 1EA
Received 4 Sept 20241 Groundwell Road Swindon SN1 2LT
Received 9 Sept 202492 Kingshill Road Kingshill Swindon SN1 4LG
Received 10 Sept 20244 Lower Close Wroughton Swindon Swindon SN4 9EX
Received 11 Sept 2024Land To The West Of Westmead Drive Westmead Swindon SN5 7ER
Received 11 Sept 202472A 71 - 72 Commercial Road Swindon SN1 5NX
Received 11 Sept 202462 Mulberry Grove Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1HY
Received 10 Sept 2024Cheriton Care Home 41 - 51 Westlecot Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4EZ
Received 10 Sept 202461 Priors Hill Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RL
Received 11 Sept 20241 Colchester Close Toothill Swindon SN5 8AG
Received 11 Sept 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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