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.
4,624 approved · 543 refused · 291 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Robin Hood Back Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7BJ
Received 17 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Fairview Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 17 Oct 202516 Sedgebrook Liden Swindon SN3 6EY
Received 17 Oct 20251 Sedgebrook Liden Swindon SN3 6EY
Received 17 Oct 202514 Sedgebrook Liden Swindon SN3 6EY
Received 17 Oct 20253 The Mews Russley Park Bishopstone Swindon SN8 2JY
Received 17 Oct 2025Newspaper House 99 - 100 Victoria Road Old Town Swindon
Received 17 Oct 202545 Devizes Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 0SA
Received 20 Oct 2025Land To The East Of 32 Goddard Avenue Old Town Swindon SN1 4HR
Received 20 Oct 20252 Dudmore Road Old Walcot Swindon SN3 1AF
Received 20 Oct 2025The Old Bakery 34 Sevenhampton Lane Sevenhampton Swindon SN6 7QA
Received 20 Oct 2025Land At Parcels R8 And R9 (East And West Of Old Vicarage Lane) New Eastern Villages, South Marston Land North Of A420
Received 20 Oct 2025Highworth Road J/O Supermarine Roundabout Highworth Road Swindon
Received 21 Oct 2025Dorcan Way Adj J/O Greenbridge Road Swindon
Received 21 Oct 2025Dorcan Way Opp J/O Greenbridge Road Swindon
Received 21 Oct 2025Near 12 Northfield Way Swindon SN3 3NJ
Received 21 Oct 2025Near 117 Marlborough Road Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 1NJ
Received 21 Oct 2025Former Honda UK Manufacturing Highworth Road Swindon
Received 20 Oct 2025Mill House Cues Lane Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PP
Received 20 Oct 2025Floors 4-9 Inclusive Falcon House Fleming Way Swindon SN1 1TA
Received 21 Oct 2025Land At Foxbridge Village North Wanborough Road Swindon
Received 21 Oct 2025Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 21 Oct 202555 Raleigh Avenue Walcot Swindon SN3 3DX
Received 21 Oct 2025The Grove Drove Road Swindon SN1 3AG
Received 21 Oct 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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