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.
4,593 approved · 540 refused · 290 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Bungalow The Marsh Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AS
Received 6 Aug 2025Land Off Commonhead Roundabout Purley Road Swindon SN4 0HA
Received 5 Aug 202548 Cranborne Chase Taw Hill Swindon SN25 1FH
Received 6 Aug 20254 York Road Swindon SN1 2LE
Received 7 Aug 202576 Bridge Street Swindon SN1 1BT
Received 8 Aug 2025Barn Adjoining Church Farm Little Hinton Lane Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DW
Received 6 Aug 2025Barn Adjoining Church Farm Little Hinton Lane Hinton Parva Swindon SN4 0DW
Received 7 Aug 2025Badbury Wick Farm 44 Day House Lane Badbury Wick Swindon SN4 0ER
Received 7 Aug 2025Cherry Tree Yard Medbourne Lane Liddington Swindon SN4 0EY
Received 7 Aug 20255 Oakapple Close Wanborough Swindon SN4 0EW
Received 8 Aug 202522 The Dormers Highworth Swindon SN6 7NY
Received 8 Aug 2025Land Off Commonhead Roundabout Purley Road Swindon SN4 0HA
Received 8 Aug 2025Phase 2 Land At Foxbridge Village North Wanborough Road Swindon SN4 0AB
Received 11 Aug 2025White Elms Newtown Lane Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8QA
Received 8 Aug 20254 Langton Park Wroughton Swindon SN4 0QN
Received 8 Aug 2025Unit G Rivermead Drive Rivermead Industrial Estate Swindon SN5 7EX
Received 11 Aug 202538 Reynolds Way St Andrews Ridge Swindon SN25 4GF
Received 11 Aug 2025Phase 2 Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 12 Aug 2025Horpit Farm Horpit Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AT
Received 8 Aug 20251 Melbourne Close Lawn Swindon SN3 1JB
Received 11 Aug 2025Manor Farm Bungalow Manor Farm Track Foxhill Swindon SN4 0DX
Received 11 Aug 202523 Redhouse Gardens Redhouse Swindon SN25 2GG
Received 11 Aug 2025Land Off Shrivenham Road Shrivenham Road Highworth Swindon
Received 11 Aug 2025Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 12 Aug 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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