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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.
4,649 approved · 544 refused · 294 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greenbridge Retail And Leisure Park Garrard Way Stratton St Margaret Swindon
Received 26 Jan 20261 - 144 Great Western Outlet Village Kemble Drive Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2DY
Received 27 Jan 2026Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 26 Jan 202617 Bouverie Avenue Lakeside Swindon SN3 1PZ
Received 27 Jan 202645 Devizes Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 0SA
Received 27 Jan 2026Land North Of A420 Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 27 Jan 2026Land At Drakes Meadow Greenbridge Industrial Estate Swindon
Received 27 Jan 20262 Saxon Mill Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0NP
Received 28 Jan 2026Land At Moredon Recreation Ground Cheney Manor Industrial Estate Cheney Manor Swindon SN2 2QJ
Received 28 Jan 202621 Beverstone Grove Lawn Swindon SN3 1EY
Received 28 Jan 202632 Havelock Street Swindon SN1 1SD
Received 29 Jan 2026Rose Cottage 9 Queens Road Hannington Swindon SN6 7RP
Received 29 Jan 202686 Manchester Road Swindon SN1 2AJ
Received 30 Jan 202689 Ermin Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 8AA
Received 29 Jan 2026Mannington Depot Telford Way Mannington Swindon
Received 29 Jan 202671 County Road Swindon SN1 2EE
Received 2 Feb 202645 Church Walk South Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 2JE
Received 30 Jan 202679 Gifford Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4XR
Received 30 Jan 2026Former Honda UK Manufacturing Highworth Road Swindon
Received 30 Jan 2026Barn Adjoining Church Farm Little Hinton Lane Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DW
Received 28 Jan 2026The Cold Harbour Ermin Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 8DJ
Received 30 Jan 2026St Philip Church Hall Beechcroft Road Swindon SN2 7RE
Received 30 Jan 20263 Carlton Gate Broome Manor Swindon SN3 1NF
Received 2 Feb 20268 Lyall Close Blunsdon St Andrew Swindon SN25 2EH
Received 30 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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