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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.
4,524 approved · 535 refused · 287 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Sept 1981 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
63 Westlecot Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4EZ
Received 21 Jan 2025Westlecot Bowls Club Bowling Green Lane Old Town Swindon SN1 4EU
Received 22 Jan 20257 Robinsgreen Covingham Swindon SN3 5AY
Received 22 Jan 2025Unit B4b1 North Swindon District Centre Abbey Meads Swindon SN25 4AN
Received 22 Jan 202517 Turnpike Road Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7EA
Received 22 Jan 2025Substation Inverary Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9DJ
Received 23 Jan 20254 Homington Avenue Swindon SN3 6BG
Received 22 Jan 2025Main Drive Blunsdon Abbey Park Blunsdon Swindon SN25 2DU
Received 22 Jan 20256 Atbara Close Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN25 3DD
Received 22 Jan 20254 Castlefield Close Eastleaze Swindon SN5 7EG
Received 23 Jan 2025Ground Floor 13 Manchester Road Swindon SN1 2AB
Received 23 Jan 202520 Roman Crescent Old Town Swindon SN1 4HH
Received 23 Jan 202528 Goddard Avenue Old Town Swindon SN1 4HR
Received 23 Jan 2025Land Adjacent To Happy Acre Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 24 Jan 202579 Churchward Avenue Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1NW
Received 24 Jan 2025Security Hut Latham Road Abbey Meads Swindon SN25 4DL
Received 27 Jan 20252 Drakes Meadow Greenbridge Inustrial Estate Swindon SN3 3LL
Received 24 Jan 2025Pinford The Forty Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PQ
Received 28 Jan 202548 - 49 Radnor Street Kingshill Swindon SN1 3PR
Received 24 Jan 202525 Bath Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4AS
Received 27 Jan 2025Lynt Farm Barn Lynt Farm Lane Inglesham Swindon SN6 7QZ
Received 27 Jan 2025Units 8, 9 And 11 Lower Ground Floor Of Part Of The West Shed (Shop B) At Swindon Carriage Works, London Street, Swindon SN1 5DG.
Received 28 Jan 2025Claymore Broad Bush Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7DH
Received 27 Jan 2025Braeside Marlborough Road Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0EP
Received 27 Jan 2025Records 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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