Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
4,306 approved · 507 refused · 269 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Liddington Street Pinehurst Swindon SN2 1SF
Received 22 Oct 20245 Cloudberry Road Woodhall Park Swindon SN25 1SD
Received 22 Oct 202439 Swindon Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4PU
Received 22 Oct 2024Land To The Rear Of 19 Station Road Swindon SN1 2BB
Received 23 Oct 2024170 Thames Avenue Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 3QA
Received 22 Oct 2024Blunsdon Road Allotments Blunsdon Road Haydon Wick Swindon
Received 24 Oct 2024Land Adjacent To 16 Turnpike Road Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7EA
Received 23 Oct 2024Land North Of A420 Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 24 Oct 2024Wiltshire House Horpit Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AT
Received 23 Oct 2024316 Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 8AY
Received 23 Oct 2024West Swindon Health Centre West Swindon Centre Whitehill Way Swindon SN5 7DL
Received 24 Oct 20249 Balmoral Close Lawn Swindon SN3 1HR
Received 24 Oct 2024Farm Buildings Eastrop Farm Shrivenham Road Highworth Swindon SN6 7BZ
Received 24 Oct 202421 Canal Walk Swindon SN1 1LL
Received 24 Oct 2024Suzuki (Platinum) Paddington Drive Bridgemead Swindon SN5 7SB
Received 24 Oct 202431 Westlea Drive Westlea Swindon SN5 7AN
Received 25 Oct 202410A Swindon Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4PZ
Received 28 Oct 20247 Parham Walk Grange Park Swindon SN5 6EQ
Received 28 Oct 202412A Furlong Close Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 1QP
Received 28 Oct 20244 Headley Close Wroughton Swindon SN4 0TR
Received 28 Oct 202411A Ashen Copse Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9LL
Received 28 Oct 20241 Lydford Close Nine Elms Swindon SN5 5UF
Received 28 Oct 2024Brook House Farm Restaurant Brook House Middleleaze Drive Middleleaze Swindon SN5 5TZ
Received 29 Oct 202412A Furlong Close Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 1QP
Received 28 Oct 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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