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.
4,636 approved · 544 refused · 291 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Inlands Farm The Marsh Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AS
Received 24 Nov 202525 Image Road Tadpole Garden Village Swindon SN25 2SB
Received 24 Nov 20252 Westleaze Mill Lane Swindon SN1 7NU
Received 25 Nov 202512 Wentworth Park Freshbrook Swindon SN5 8QX
Received 25 Nov 2025108 Boness Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9DT
Received 25 Nov 20259 Winchester Close Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4HB
Received 25 Nov 2025Rushy Platt Industrial Estate Caen View Swindon SN5 8WQ
Received 26 Nov 20259 Lyddon Way Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 1PE
Received 25 Nov 2025Police Station Newburgh Place Highworth Swindon SN6 7DN
Received 27 Nov 2025Health Hydro Milton Road Swindon SN1 5JD
Received 27 Nov 2025Unit 8 Greenbridge Retail Park Swindon SN3 3SG
Received 27 Nov 20252 Westleaze Mill Lane Swindon SN1 7NU
Received 26 Nov 202560 Clary Road Haydon Wick Swindon SN2 2ST
Received 26 Nov 2025Beech House High Street Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AD
Received 26 Nov 202530 Belle Vue Road Old Town Swindon SN1 3HN
Received 26 Nov 2025Land At Foxbridge Village New Eastern Villages Wanborough Road Wanborough Swindon
Received 26 Nov 2025The Rails Oxon Place Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PS
Received 27 Nov 20251 Stirling Close Wroughton Swindon SN4 9HG
Received 27 Nov 202514 Savernake Street Old Town Swindon SN1 3LZ
Received 27 Nov 2025Health Hydro Milton Road Swindon SN1 5JD
Received 28 Nov 202571 Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 1AA
Received 27 Nov 2025Former Pegasus & Scorpio House Frankland Road Blagrove Industrial Estate Swindon SN5 8YG
Received 28 Nov 202524 Summerhouse Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9HZ
Received 27 Nov 202542 Westlecot Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4HB
Received 28 Nov 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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