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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.
4,535 approved · 535 refused · 289 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Carlisle Avenue Old Town Swindon SN3 1QA
Received 7 Mar 2025152 Thursday Street Haydon End Swindon SN25 1SR
Received 7 Mar 20251 Ermin Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 8EF
Received 7 Mar 202547 Windsor Road Lawn Swindon SN3 1JU
Received 10 Mar 202515 Paddock Close Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 1QL
Received 7 Mar 202536 Ellingdon Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9HY
Received 10 Mar 2025Gracious Cottage 10 Queens Road Hannington Swindon SN6 7RP
Received 10 Mar 20256 Strouds Hill Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0NH
Received 10 Mar 2025Sevenhampton Farm Sevenhampton Lane Sevenhampton Swindon SN6 7QA
Received 10 Mar 20253 Maxey Close Shaw Swindon SN5 5SD
Received 10 Mar 202575 Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 1PJ
Received 10 Mar 2025Rowenburgh High Street Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AE
Received 10 Mar 202513 Ashley Close Walcot Swindon SN3 3AP
Received 10 Mar 202524 Okebourne Park Liden Swindon SN3 6AH
Received 10 Mar 202574 Okebourne Park Liden Swindon SN3 6AJ
Received 10 Mar 202531 Keyneston Road Nythe Swindon SN3 3PS
Received 10 Mar 202590 Kent Road Kingshill Swindon SN1 3NP
Received 10 Mar 2025Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 10 Mar 2025Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 10 Mar 2025Dinton Broad Bush Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7DH
Received 11 Mar 2025Opry House 1 Talavera Road Draycot Foliat Swindon SN4 0JG
Received 11 Mar 2025Chilton Farm Elcombe Wroughton Swindon
Received 11 Mar 20253 Ettone Barns Castle Eaton Swindon SN6 6JJ
Received 11 Mar 20253 Ettone Barns Castle Eaton Swindon SN6 6JJ
Received 11 Mar 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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