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.
4,585 approved · 538 refused · 290 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Sept 1981 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
New Cottage 66 The Street Liddington Swindon SN4 0HD
Received 16 Jul 2025Prebendal Farm Icknield Way Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PT
Received 16 Jul 202533 Deben Crescent Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 3QB
Received 15 Jul 20258 Nolan Close St Andrews Ridge Swindon SN25 4GP
Received 16 Jul 20253 Abbey Farm Cottages Tadpole Lane Blunsdon St Andrew Swindon SN25 2DW
Received 17 Jul 202511 The Elms Highworth Swindon SN6 7DD
Received 17 Jul 202546 Exmouth Street Kingshill Swindon SN1 3PU
Received 18 Jul 202554 Sywell Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4BH
Received 18 Jul 2025St Josephs Catholic College Ocotal Way Swindon SN3 3LR
Received 18 Jul 202555 - 57 Commercial Road Swindon SN1 5NX
Received 22 Jul 2025Land Off Lynt Road Inglesham Swindon SN6 7QX
Received 21 Jul 2025The Chalet Church Row Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DW
Received 18 Jul 20257 Butts Road Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0NN
Received 21 Jul 202536 Gold View Rushey Platt Swindon SN5 8ZG
Received 18 Jul 20251 Irston Way Freshbrook Swindon SN5 8ND
Received 21 Jul 2025Prebendal Farm Icknield Way Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PT
Received 22 Jul 2025Prebendal Farm Icknield Way Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PT
Received 22 Jul 2025Little Thatch High Street Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AE
Received 21 Jul 2025Marlborough Park Phase 1 Pipers Way Swindon
Received 21 Jul 2025Land At Shrivenham Road Shrivenham Road Highworth Swindon
Received 21 Jul 202572 High Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7AE
Received 22 Jul 202536 Edale Moor Liden Swindon SN3 6LT
Received 22 Jul 2025128 Lennox Drive Walcot Swindon SN3 3BD
Received 22 Jul 2025West Bungalow Cobden Road Ferndale Swindon SN2 1DP
Received 22 Jul 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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