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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.
4,645 approved · 544 refused · 293 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chilton Farm Elcombe Wroughton Swindon SN4 9LU
Received 22 Dec 202593 Ermin Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 8AA
Received 19 Dec 202528 Pembroke Gardens Moredon Swindon SN25 3EW
Received 18 Dec 202599 - 100 Victoria Road Old Town Swindon
Received 22 Dec 2025Oakfield Campus Marlowe Avenue Swindon SN3 3HQ
Received 22 Dec 2025Bmw Plant Swindon Bridge End Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4PE
Received 19 Dec 20252 High Street Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 1HX
Received 19 Dec 2025132 - 136 Beechcroft Road Swindon SN2 7QE
Received 19 Dec 2025Chiseldon Cottage Mays Lane Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0LQ
Received 19 Dec 2025Former Pizza Hut 7 Shaw Ridge Leisure Park Shaw Swindon SN5 7DN
Received 22 Dec 2025Newspaper House 99 - 100 Victoria Road Old Town Swindon
Received 23 Dec 2025Land To The Rear Of 151 - 152 Victoria Road Old Town Swindon
Received 19 Dec 2025Mkm Building Supplies (Swindon) Ltd Unit 2 Pegasus Trade Park Frankland Road Blagrove Swindon SN5 8YG
Received 22 Dec 202516 Magdalen Road Wanborough Swindon SN4 0BP
Received 23 Dec 202552 Clary Road Haydon Wick Swindon SN2 2ST
Received 23 Dec 202511 Avenell Road Wanborough Swindon SN4 0BS
Received 23 Dec 202520 Sunnyside Avenue Kingshill Swindon SN1 4ND
Received 23 Dec 202524-25 Eastcott Hill Swindon SN1 3JG
Received 19 Dec 2025The Penthouse One Fifty Victoria Road Old Town Swindon SN1 3UZ
Received 24 Dec 2025Unit 48-51 Thornhill Industrial Estate South Marston Swindon SN3 4TA
Received 24 Dec 2025Ridgeway Hospital Moormead Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9DD
Received 23 Dec 2025Land At Foxbridge Village South New Eastern Villages Wanborough Road Wanborough Swindon
Received 23 Dec 2025Network Rail Compound Adjacent To Station Road Swindon SN1 2BB
Received 24 Dec 2025Land To The Rear Of 30-42 Wiltshire Avenue Swindon
Received 24 Dec 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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