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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.
4,551 approved · 537 refused · 290 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
3 Westmorland Road Swindon SN1 2ND
Received 22 Apr 2025Land Adjacent To Bluebells Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon
Received 22 Apr 202514 Camton Road Middleleaze Swindon SN5 5TP
Received 22 Apr 2025Land At Mill Lane Swindon SN1 4HG
Received 17 Apr 2025United Footwear Horsham Road Park South Swindon SN3 2LX
Received 17 Apr 20257 Devereux Close Grange Park Swindon SN5 6HE
Received 22 Apr 20257 Bryant Road Swindon SN25 1TB
Received 22 Apr 2025Former Honda UK Manufacturing Highworth Road Swindon
Received 22 Apr 20252 Mariner Road Oakhurst Swindon SN25 2LE
Received 23 Apr 2025103 Bath Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4AX
Received 23 Apr 202510 Beech Lea Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7DE
Received 23 Apr 202593 Ermin Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 8AA
Received 22 Apr 202531-33 County Road Swindon SN1 2EW
Received 22 Apr 2025Unit 4 Keypoint Thornhill Road South Marston Swindon SN3 4RX
Received 23 Apr 2025Land To The Rear Of 31-33 County Road Swindon SN1 2EW
Received 22 Apr 202521 Buckingham Road Lawn Swindon SN3 1HZ
Received 24 Apr 2025Science Museum Red Barn Lane Wroughton Swindon SN4 9NS
Received 25 Apr 2025Redlands Farm Wanborough Road Swindon SN4 0AA
Received 24 Apr 2025Poveys Cottage Tuckers Lane Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DW
Received 24 Apr 2025Poveys Cottage Tuckers Lane Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DW
Received 24 Apr 202565 John Ruskin Road Tadpole Garden Village Swindon SN25 2PS
Received 28 Apr 2025The Coach House Eastrop Grange 30 Eastrop Highworth Swindon SN6 7AT
Received 28 Apr 2025Meadow Vale House Back Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7BJ
Received 28 Apr 2025Joel Joffe Building 900 Welton Road Westlea Swindon SN5 7XQ
Received 29 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.
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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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