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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.
4,647 approved · 544 refused · 293 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Lyall Close Blunsdon St Andrew Swindon SN25 2EH
Received 14 Jan 2026138 Kingshill Road Kingshill Swindon SN1 4LW
Received 15 Jan 202622 Wainwright Mews Wroughton Swindon SN4 9BG
Received 14 Jan 202623 Barcelona Crescent Wroughton Swindon SN4 9EE
Received 15 Jan 2026Land At Foxbridge Village New Eastern Villages Wanborough Road Wanborough Swindon
Received 13 Jan 2026Stanley House 64 - 65 Victoria Road Old Town Swindon SN1 3BB
Received 16 Jan 2026Fleming Way Service Station Fleming Way Swindon SN1 2NG
Received 16 Jan 2026Units A1 And A2 Stirling Road South Marston Park Swindon SN3 4TQ
Received 19 Jan 20264 College Farm Cottages Lechlade Road Highworth Swindon SN6 7QU
Received 15 Jan 20267 The Forum Westlea Swindon SN5 7DQ
Received 16 Jan 202648 Okebourne Park Liden Swindon SN3 6AH
Received 19 Jan 2026The Croft Church Road Wanborough Swindon SN4 0DQ
Received 19 Jan 2026Land At Hermitage Lane Stratton St Margaret Swindon
Received 15 Jan 202690 Northern Road Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1PL
Received 19 Jan 2026Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 19 Jan 2026Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 19 Jan 2026171 Cheney Manor Road Swindon SN2 2NY
Received 21 Jan 202654 The Street Moredon Swindon SN25 3ER
Received 20 Jan 202629 Hodson Road Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0LN
Received 19 Jan 202629 Deben Crescent Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 3QB
Received 21 Jan 2026Former Honda UK Manufacturing Highworth Road Swindon
Received 19 Jan 202614 Horseshoe Crescent Peatmoor Swindon SN5 5AJ
Received 19 Jan 2026The Great Western Hospital Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 6BB
Received 21 Jan 202654 Conisborough Toothill Swindon SN5 8ES
Received 21 Jan 2026Records 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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