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.
4,550 approved · 537 refused · 290 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Sheps Cottage The Street Castle Eaton Swindon SN6 6JZ
Received 7 Apr 202521 High Street Highworth Swindon SN6 7AG
Received 8 Apr 202521 High Street Highworth Swindon SN6 7AG
Received 8 Apr 2025Honda Highworth Road Swindon SN3 4TZ
Received 9 Apr 20258-10 Bath Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4BA
Received 8 Apr 202511 Darcey Close Grange Park Swindon SN5 6DZ
Received 8 Apr 2025Floors 4-9 Inclusive Falcon House Fleming Way Swindon SN1 1TA
Received 8 Apr 202523A 23 Cricklade Street Old Town Swindon SN1 3HU
Received 9 Apr 2025238 Queens Drive Swindon SN3 1BA
Received 9 Apr 2025Land To The Rear Of Kennington 65 Highworth Road South Marston Swindon SN3 4SF
Received 10 Apr 2025Uplands 31 High Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7AG
Received 10 Apr 2025Campanile Hotel Welton Road Westlea Swindon SN5 7XG
Received 11 Apr 2025Marlborough House Okus Road Swindon SN1 4JS
Received 10 Apr 202514 Loughborough Close Grange Park Swindon SN5 6BW
Received 10 Apr 202512 Dickens Close Liden Swindon SN3 6JN
Received 11 Apr 202570 Colebrook Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4DU
Received 11 Apr 2025Former Honda UK Manufacturing Highworth Road Swindon
Received 11 Apr 202549 Fleet Street/29 John Street Swindon SN1 1RE
Received 11 Apr 202532 Priors Hill Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RW
Received 11 Apr 2025May Cottage 20 Mays Lane Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0LQ
Received 14 Apr 202531 Berkeley Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9BN
Received 14 Apr 202538 Montagu Street Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2HW
Received 14 Apr 202526 Ecklington Eldene Swindon SN3 3TJ
Received 14 Apr 202512 Kerrs Way Wroughton Swindon SN4 9EH
Received 14 Apr 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage