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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.
4,626 approved · 543 refused · 291 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Little Court Hampton Lane Hampton Swindon SN6 7RL
Received 20 Oct 20256 Whatleys Orchard Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8QB
Received 22 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Fairview Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 21 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Fairview Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 21 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Eldswyn Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 21 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Eldswyn Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 21 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To Eldswyn Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 21 Oct 2025Greenbridge Retail And Leisure Park Garrard Way Stratton St Margaret Swindon
Received 22 Oct 202573 Homington Avenue Swindon SN3 6FJ
Received 23 Oct 20251 Windsor Road Lawn Swindon SN3 1JP
Received 22 Oct 2025Land Fronting 4 Cricklade Road Gorse Hill Swindon SN2 8NZ
Received 23 Oct 2025Land Fronting 132 Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 8AG
Received 23 Oct 2025Adshel 49040309 Slade Drive Stratton St Margaret Swindon
Received 22 Oct 20254 Trenchard Road Stanton Fitzwarren Swindon SN6 7RZ
Received 22 Oct 2025Unit 7 Drakes Meadow Greenbridge Inustrial Estate Swindon SN3 3LL
Received 23 Oct 202561 Westlecot Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4EZ
Received 22 Oct 20251 Croft Road Swindon SN1 4DG
Received 23 Oct 202523 Robinsgreen Covingham Swindon SN3 5AY
Received 23 Oct 2025The Old Rectory Church Road Liddington Swindon SN4 0HB
Received 23 Oct 202520 Fleet Street Swindon SN1 1RQ
Received 24 Oct 20256 Woodland Close Swindon SN25 6AB
Received 24 Oct 2025Land To Rear Of Staddlestones Butts Road Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0NN
Received 27 Oct 2025Telecommunication Mast Hay Lane Caravan Site Hay Lane Wroughton Swindon
Received 27 Oct 20259 Clifton Street Kingshill Swindon SN1 3PY
Received 24 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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